From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A8D7F15800A for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2023 21:08:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1D5FBE089C; Mon, 17 Jul 2023 21:08:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (woodpecker.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 84876E0864 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2023 21:08:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-yw1-f177.google.com with SMTP id 00721157ae682-579dfae6855so50876367b3.1 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2023 14:08:06 -0700 (PDT) X-Gm-Message-State: ABy/qLZ/0Jq/I0PFfSSXy6IEdPmHTFIOSffVCDm17t+MWH7KP08d0Wk1 OeS9nYXgDsU3HP3daJTD2XjzXv5N2v2fdgR12kE= X-Google-Smtp-Source: APBJJlGTqA4bRvG2yabekqOlpvzdzzFlLy630H6ei9zkG+HG0le1U+X2jW40fbbqPErHP00awm3ZG5BCMic2oAdhyMY= X-Received: by 2002:a81:8703:0:b0:579:f5e3:ad07 with SMTP id x3-20020a818703000000b00579f5e3ad07mr12957758ywf.14.1689628084560; Mon, 17 Jul 2023 14:08:04 -0700 (PDT) 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 X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <9626e2f9-5f57-e061-b3ba-1c1fa95cb868@gentoo.org> <87sf9m9ta5.fsf@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <87sf9m9ta5.fsf@gentoo.org> From: Mike Gilbert Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2023 17:07:53 -0400 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: obsolete acct-* packages To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 22eabac8-dd44-4da9-a04e-4297778d1e26 X-Archives-Hash: b2133e3cb945a65fb1c99ebc7b934347 On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 4:27=E2=80=AFPM Sam James 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.