Graveyard overlay (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites: games-strategy/x2, games-strategy/x2-demo)

[Ben de Groot <yngwin@gentoo.org>]

On 14 February 2013 08:08, Florian Philipp <lists@binarywings.net> wrote:
> Am 14.02.2013 00:07, schrieb Brian Dolbec:
>>
>> Easy, just copy the ebuild and any patches in the files subdir to a
>> local overlay.
>>
>
> Which brings us back to the old discussion on what good it does for one
> person to do the work of masking and removing and N persons to do the
> work of creating an overlay instead of just letting the package rot in
> the tree until it is actually broken. But I guess everyone's pretty
> tired of that discussion so let's leave it at that.
>

Okay, let's do this. Since the users don't seem to be able to organize
themselves, I have taken the initiative to set this up. Currently
there is the graveyard overlay on github, and I will be opening the
required bug reports to get this mirrored on git.overlays.gentoo.org
and included in layman's overlay list.

I need two things:

1. Users volunteering some time to keep this running
2. Agreement on a place to host tarballs no longer hosted upstream

People who are interested can contact me in the #gentoo-dev-help
channel on Freenode.
-- 
Cheers,

Ben | yngwin
Gentoo developer
Gentoo Qt project lead, Gentoo Wiki admin