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 0302E158094 for ; Sun, 25 Sep 2022 15:07:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5B1D82BC04C; Sun, 25 Sep 2022 15:07:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from covici.com (debian-2.covici.com [166.84.7.93]) (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 020EF2BC042 for ; Sun, 25 Sep 2022 15:07:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ccs.covici.com (ccs.covici.com [70.109.51.194]) (authenticated bits=0) by covici.com (8.15.2/8.15.2/Debian-22) with ESMTPSA id 28PF9CsI1166494 (version=TLSv1.3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sun, 25 Sep 2022 11:09:13 -0400 Received: from ccs.covici.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ccs.covici.com (8.17.1.9/8.17.1) with ESMTPS id 28PF7caw2452473 (version=TLSv1.3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sun, 25 Sep 2022 11:07:38 -0400 Received: (from covici@localhost) by ccs.covici.com (8.17.1.9/8.17.1/Submit) id 28PF7clQ2452472; Sun, 25 Sep 2022 11:07:38 -0400 Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2022 11:07:38 -0400 Message-ID: From: John Covici To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] seems lots of packages no longer in the tree In-Reply-To: <02d74fea5e3c5c3a2d23aa86658f0a620f864462.camel@gentoo.org> References: <02d74fea5e3c5c3a2d23aa86658f0a620f864462.camel@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.9 (Almost Unreal) SEMI-EPG/1.14.7 (Harue) FLIM-LB/1.14.9 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Goj=F2?=) APEL-LB/10.8 EasyPG/1.0.0 Emacs/28.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Organization: Covici Computer Systems Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI-EPG 1.14.7 - "Harue") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Archives-Salt: 12a6b1d2-c328-4d45-a2a1-d309a3515e36 X-Archives-Hash: 40d1bdbd7245b1d0162a26c34baf0cef On Sun, 25 Sep 2022 10:38:49 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > On Sun, 2022-09-25 at 10:04 -0400, John Covici wrote: > > Hi. I updated the tree yesterday using git. Now, in this mornings > > batch of announcements, I am finding lots of packages no longer in the > > tree -- one of them is app-admin/logcheck . Another is rxvt. Now, I > > don't use these packages, but I am wondering if something has gone > > wrong with my tree? > > > > > > Logcheck was removed because it had a security issue that I reported > five years ago and nobody has cared enough to fix it since then. It was > package.masked for a while too and nobody complained. > > x11-terms/rxvt was not removed recently. Do you mean mrxvt? If so, I > think it was removed for a similar reason: > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/791004 > It was mrxvt. But why would the announcement list specify valid versions for those packages, if they have been removed? -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici wb2una covici@ccs.covici.com