From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RzZUv-0002JK-IC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:06:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BA332E0E20; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:05:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bk0-f53.google.com (mail-bk0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18A86E0E19 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:05:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkcit16 with SMTP id it16so5467511bkc.40 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 12:05:04 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of freemanrich@gmail.com designates 10.204.130.150 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.204.130.150; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of freemanrich@gmail.com designates 10.204.130.150 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=freemanrich@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=freemanrich@gmail.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.204.130.150]) by 10.204.130.150 with SMTP id t22mr11712399bks.1.1329768304326 (num_hops = 1); Mon, 20 Feb 2012 12:05:04 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=L+67gBl9Io/maE/DUFT8QazDpdnW2uRQFZVehgX2P24=; b=jASGzbnHPFBwqlZr4J84qDzTxjdq5phmzH7XCPDhLjfhdXioYMN5SbiKwITgU9UZbs TCgMkxQwPC0KSW2CrioRkHO0U1HcrGeG8XkUv7IY9z5HjFQJ5H3jAuZWpyrli4fXQyio 13kTYVgZWqQ6jZuIBj/ofBhUctyr1BEB028jA= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.130.150 with SMTP id t22mr9444093bks.1.1329768304242; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 12:05:04 -0800 (PST) Sender: freemanrich@gmail.com Received: by 10.205.32.194 with HTTP; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 12:05:04 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1329766706.21166.10.camel@belkin4> References: <1329651012.2778.1.camel@belkin4> <1329766706.21166.10.camel@belkin4> Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:05:04 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: qdNaUhdLpGQpXtb4aeKll7wxGaE Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Help on getting media-libs/svgalib fixed From: Rich Freeman To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: a21ae049-5c03-4dbc-a6fc-25d85e7d1393 X-Archives-Hash: 285c2c843c023b1ca55ae9b5421342e6 On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > The problem is that users CCed on their bug reports have provided > patches and fixes for them and would probably get angry if we punt them > without even applying the patches to the tree (but I don't want to > commit them as I cannot even test them at build time due being x86 > specific). It seems to me that the package still needs a maintainer. That could be a developer, or a proxy-maintainer if one of those users wants to commit to tending it. If nobody wants to step up, and the package is buggy, then treecleaning is the only recourse. Rich