From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HcbVj-0006Nt-0L for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 06:13:23 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l3E6CSJT006579; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 06:12:28 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l3E6AVr5004273 for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 06:10:32 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 616E3648E7 for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 06:10:31 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -0.823 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.823 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.900, TW_SV=0.077] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 59VdPpI7eZrC for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 06:10:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE644645B8 for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 06:10:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HcbSh-0007ju-LI for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 08:10:15 +0200 Received: from graaff.xs4all.nl ([213.84.176.152]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 08:10:15 +0200 Received: from graaff by graaff.xs4all.nl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 08:10:15 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Hans de Graaff Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: dev-lang/ruby-cvs Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 07:50:48 +0200 Message-ID: References: <462008E1.4070901@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: graaff.xs4all.nl User-Agent: Pan/0.125 (Potzrebie) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: c394dcd2-2e06-46ea-ab78-db19f5db0631 X-Archives-Hash: f106cbcde0f2595c91fc63fea7a26f4b On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:49:05 -0400, Doug Goldstein wrote: > Hans de Graaff wrote: >> dev-lang/ruby-cvs builds the latest Ruby 1.9.x version from CVS. >> Except... upstream has moved to SVN, so this ebuild no longer works. >> It's now masked and will be removed in 30 days. >> >> > Is there any point in waiting 30 days? Since the ebuild just doesn't > work because of a VCS change, it's clear it won't work at all for anyone > no matter how much hacking they do. The 30 day rule in this case should > not apply. I agree that in this case it's not needed, but I think it's the courteous thing to do and AFAIK no electrons will be unduly harmed by it. Also, it makes it easier for someone in the ruby team to look at the ebuild for reference when working on the ruby-svn ebuild. Hans -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list