Re: [gentoo-dev] Package removal without proper last-riting

[Sergey Popov <pinkbyte@gentoo.org>]

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12.11.2013 03:55, Dustin C. Hatch пишет:
> On 11/11/2013 06:51, Tom Wijsman wrote:
>> On Mon, 11 Nov 2013 10:47:30 +0100
>> Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Silent removals do us no good.
> ...
>>
>>   1) dev-only seems to be the main cause of lost announcements, which
>>      isn't that worry some as most of us still receive them but it would
>>      be nice for them to be in dev-announce as well;
> 
> This is actually the reason I subscribed to -dev in the first place. I
> started noticing that some packages I needed/used/used to use/etc. were
> being removed and I wanted to find out why. At first, I subscribed to
> -announce and -dev-announce, but I found that I still wasn't being
> notified.

And this is bad thing, cause IIRC devmanual says that such removals
should be sent to -dev-announce.

> I know overlays aren't officially supported, but the courtesy of
> announcing package removals, especially libraries, would be much
> appreciated. There have been times that a library I use for an internal
> project, for example, was removed without notice, forcing me to look at
> the CVS attic to find out why. More often than not, though, the commit
> message is simply "removed" or "clean up," which is just as unhelpful.
> While I have no problem copying stuff back out of the attic into a local
> overlay, it would be nice to prepare for that before something breaks.
> 
> Thank you,
> 


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Best regards, Sergey Popov
Gentoo developer
Gentoo Desktop Effects project lead
Gentoo Qt project lead
Gentoo Proxy maintainers project lead


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