Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: obsolete acct-* packages

[Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>]

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Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> writes:

> On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 4:27 PM Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> > Haven't we been keeping these because we still need to decide on a
>> > policy about what to do with dead acct-*/* packages?
>>
>> Right. https://bugs.gentoo.org/781881 is still open. Flow could ping
>> the QA team and ask if it should be closed, given the opinion there
>> seems to be that there's no need to keep them, but I think it's wrong
>> to do this pre-empting a policy decision, given it essentially forces
>> the "don't keep them" path.
>
> The bug has been open for several months without comment. If a policy
> were going to materialize, I think it would have happened by now.
>
> Forcing the issue by sending this last rites notice seems acceptable to me.

Pinging someone rather than "forcing the issue" as a first-step is customary.

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