* [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: media-video/gephex
@ 2009-02-16 7:41 99% ` Ryan Hill
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From: Ryan Hill @ 2009-02-16 7:41 UTC (permalink / raw
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On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 06:17:04 +0000 (UTC)
Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> wrote:
> Peter Alfredsen <loki_val@gentoo.org> posted
> 20090215212907.00a735b9@gentoo.org, excerpted below, on Sun, 15 Feb
> 2009 21:29:07 +0100:
>
> > +# Peter Alfredsen <loki_val@gentoo.org> (15 Feb 2009)
> > +# Masking for removal in 30 days.
> > +# Fails to build with gcc-4.3, bug 250712
> > +media-video/gephex
> > +
>
> Shouldn't there be a bit more to it than that, something about it
> being maintainer-needed, or maintainer unwilling to work on it
> further, or upstream dead, or some combination of the above? Just
> because it doesn't compile with the latest GCC isn't normally
> considered reason in itself to remove a package.
>
> Also note that there's a "new" (April, 2007) version 0.4.4, on the
> site, that may work better with newer gcc than the 2005 version 0.4.3
> that's the latest in our tree. So maybe it well could be
> maintainer-needed, but that should be in the masking for removal
> reason, if so, and ideally, listed in the last rites announcement
> here, in case anyone's interested in taking a look at it.
>
> That said, I don't have any particular interest in it, so I don't
> have a problem with it disappearing. I just found the ONLY reason
> given an uncommon enough reason for removal on its own that it
> warranted comment, is all.
read the bug.
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