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 4.54) id 1FC0q5-0001cD-41 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 20:43:57 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1MKgoeN027048; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 20:42:50 GMT Received: from citycable.ch (mail.alinto.citycable.ch [85.218.0.110]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1MKc154007707 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 20:38:01 GMT Received: (qmail 23586 invoked from network); 22 Feb 2006 20:27:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO pygoscelis.shadok.ch) (tcoulon@citycable.ch@85.218.41.192) by smtp.alinto.citycable.ch with SMTP; 22 Feb 2006 20:27:01 -0000 From: Thierry de Coulon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What happens with masked packages? Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 21:38:00 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <200602222055.42113.tcoulon@decoulon.ch> <43FCC33D.7000303@joat.com> In-Reply-To: <43FCC33D.7000303@joat.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602222138.01006.tcoulon@decoulon.ch> X-aduser: tcoulon@citycable.ch/85.218.41.192 X-Archives-Salt: d0906b66-a525-496b-85da-dc0abe4e2244 X-Archives-Hash: 2767f62058fde5d2f81687e112c7df19 On Wednesday 22 February 2006 21.02, Dave Nebinger wrote: > Thierry de Coulon wrote: > > Where - and how - should I report masked packages that work? > > You don't need to report success. There are teams of folks who 'bless' > the packages into unmasked status when they feel they are ready. > > Your lack of reporting a bug is an indication that there is nothing to > block the package from being promoted. Thanks. Does not seem to me to be the best solution, though: if a package is masked, many users won't install it, so what's the absence of bug report indicating? In my case, the funny thing is: DVDRIP is not masked and does not work. Acidrip is masked and works like a charm. Let's hope that the blessing folks find out. Thierry -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list