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From: Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
To: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
Cc: gentoo-council@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-council] Re: [gentoo-pms] kdebuild-1 conditionales
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:01:03
Message-Id: 1260817256.7072.7.camel@hangover
In Reply to: [gentoo-council] Re: [gentoo-pms] kdebuild-1 conditionales by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 17:18 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:11:19 +0100
3 > Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
4 > > >>>>> On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
5 > > > [...] kdebuild-1 needs to remain so long as package managers
6 > > > support it.
7 > >
8 > > We can considerably shorten this discussion, because it boils down to
9 > > the following: PMS is an official Gentoo document, and therefore it's
10 > > not upon you to make this decision.
11 >
12 > Alright. We'll escalate this to the Council then.
13 >
14 > Council: please vote on the following at the next meeting:
15 >
16 > "kdebuild-1 to be kept in PMS as-is until we're reasonably sure that no
17 > users have installed packages that use kdebuild-1. Since kdebuild-1 is
18 > no longer actively used for installable packages, when time permits, and
19 > to fit in with the normal release cycle, the Paludis team shall take
20 > steps to notify users who do have installed kdebuild-1 packages that
21 > they should uninstall those packages. This shall be done by having a
22 > deprecation check for at least one major version (x.y) series of
23 > releases before removal in the subsequent major version (x.z)."
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26 As pointed out many times to you. kdebuild has nothing with do with
27 Gentoo proper. I see no reason that it should concern the council at
28 all. I do not intend to vote on this item and consider the matter EOF.
29
30 If you continue to mail bomb the council list, it will be considered
31 abuse.
32
33 --
34 Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
35 Gentoo Linux

Replies

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Re: [gentoo-council] Re: [gentoo-pms] kdebuild-1 conditionales Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-council] Re: [gentoo-pms] kdebuild-1 conditionales Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>