Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: last rite of dev-python/elixir

[Markos Chandras <hwoarang@gentoo.org>]

On 6 June 2013 11:32, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> wrote:
> IAN DELANEY posted on Thu, 06 Jun 2013 17:55:16 +0800 as excerpted:
>
>> # Ian Delaney <idella4@gentoo.org> (06 Jun 2013)
>> # Masked for removal in ~ 30 days. Upstream inactive dev-python/elixir
>
> Where's the bug reference one would normally expect to see with such an
> announcement?
>
> AFAIK, simply inactive upstream hasn't traditionally been enough to
> trigger removal, as long as the package still builds and has no serious
> bugs, and is still either legally mirrored and redistributable, or
> remains legally available from an otherwise inactive upstream.
>
> Of course if there's serious bugs (including that it's no longer
> available to build in the first place), that's an entirely different
> matter, but then there should be a reference to such bugs in the
> announcement/mask, and there was no such reference in this case.
>
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> "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
> and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman
>
>

I agree.

If upstream inactivity is the only reason to remove it, then don't!

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Markos Chandras - Gentoo Linux Developer
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