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On 1/9/08, Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:49:40 +0100
> "Wulf C. Krueger" <philantrop@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > >> What's the proper fix for when keyword requests stagnate in
> > >> bugzilla?
> > > That depends upon whether the keyword request is important.
> >
> > Let's take a real world example: KDE 3.5.5 is old, buggy and has
> > some important issues which won't be fixed anymore.
>
> Yet it's the most proven version on mips.
>
> > > If it is (and legitimately so
> >
> > I hope you'll accept it when I say that 3.5.5 is such a legitimate
> > case now.
>
> Why? It was good enough to be keyworded stable at one point.
>
> > What would you suggest to do now? I think we've done all we could
> > short of the following:
> >
> > a) Drop all keywords but those of mips. Leaves mips and, more
> > importantly, its users with a vulnerable and unmaintained set of
> > packages.
>
> ...and break the tree spectacularly, causing huge amounts of pain for
> your fellow developers when they encounter horrible repoman output when
> they try to do anything.
>
> > b) package.mask 3.5.5 with a big, fat warning and let the users
> > decide. Same drawbacks as a).
>
> ...and break the tree spectacularly, causing huge amounts of pain for
> your fellow developers when they encounter horrible repoman output when
> they try to do anything.
>
> > c) Drop 3.5.5 from the tree. The cleanest but most radical solution.
> > If mips' users want KDE, they would have to bug (sic!) the mips team.
>
> ...and break the tree spectacularly, causing huge amounts of pain for
> your fellow developers when they encounter horrible repoman output when
> they try to do anything.
Actually if they dump kde-3.5.5 and anything depending on it, then
they don't break the tree and everyone is happy, no?
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