From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22609138247 for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2013 09:39:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4C029E0AD6; Mon, 11 Nov 2013 09:39:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5934CE0A72 for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2013 09:39:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [91.220.220.251] (pinkbyte.micronet-rostov.ru [91.220.220.251]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: pinkbyte) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 12DC733EEE2 for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2013 09:39:34 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <5280A5B0.5020106@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 13:38:56 +0400 From: Sergey Popov User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130923 Thunderbird/17.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Package removal without proper last-riting References: <5280A447.8050707@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <5280A447.8050707@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.2 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="AswgrjtwNTg5l911GHk8Fo2bOwErtIi9T" X-Archives-Salt: 7da19686-4cab-43e9-84a4-5984b8ab9e92 X-Archives-Hash: e3d741338071f58dcde3d21f8dae89be This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --AswgrjtwNTg5l911GHk8Fo2bOwErtIi9T Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 11.11.2013 13:32, Manuel R=FCger wrote: > Hi, >=20 > I recently noticed it twice, that it seems to be common practice to > remove a package without using the methods described in [1], but just > dropping it from cvs. >=20 > From my observations packages removed without last-rites could be > characterized by this: >=20 > - it was a dependency of another package > - this package dropped / incorporated the dependency > - no other packages depend on it > - there are possible forks or updates, but maintainer doesn't care^W^W > has no interest +1, this should be documented IMO. I last-rite games-strategy/seven-kingdoms-data recently without sending notice, cause last versions of games-strategy/seven-kingdoms includes all of it's data. > This might work for the main tree, but it won't for overlays, that migh= t > also depend on these packages (because they have a patched / older > version of your maintained package). We are trying not to break overlays, but we also can not guarantee full support for them. --=20 Best regards, Sergey Popov Gentoo developer Gentoo Desktop Effects project lead Gentoo Qt project lead Gentoo Proxy maintainers project lead --AswgrjtwNTg5l911GHk8Fo2bOwErtIi9T Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSgKWxAAoJECo/aRed92672LgH/3l46BlvMT6pFw14SV/g6qBw 8wi7MPvMw3EsvYmYBiuvcBJNaXazeO8irWTFlpTd4GxoqctZ7TfEJR64WtB4rLiB sN+3jlSXjIcDZrPTrR5ZkqU7zahbyoW7xbSOJyg8ZSXf63Rh3zP5xtTVLUP8ytKq ld63Ea986vSjnMyNcgu/uJlSQvQsuYCwX5VeOMl3EXffJpufyKIByBpyh4nWHZ3A 4zYlp9mkphW9+4mqV4R2GUv6/fk6JIWHJLXzPtr8b0Y2PrLo+Xz+qsYO+jkCusWn CBNis+uB1nxP+N0yh6AKF95VMJ1vAv2rCs43J6/k0T5DsGL1PD1l5PkMoj0A4bE= =9D7u -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --AswgrjtwNTg5l911GHk8Fo2bOwErtIi9T--