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From: "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] masking and removing *coin packages
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2016 15:27:00
Message-Id: 77a38698-2f84-9d52-d292-622f81e62ecb@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: Re: [gentoo-dev] masking and removing *coin packages by Rich Freeman
1 On 7/8/16 10:42 AM, Rich Freeman wrote:
2 > On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Anthony G. Basile <blueness@g.o> wrote:
3 >>
4 >> Also there's some debate in IRC about whether or not these packages
5 >> should be lastrited or dropped to maintainer-needed. These forks are
6 >> not in good shape upstream, so I think it makes better sense to
7 >> p.mask/lastrite and then move them to the graveyard overlay when I
8 >> remove them from the tree in 30 days.
9 >>
10 >
11 > IMO the criteria should be whether they work or not. Not whether
12 > upstream is more or less active.
13
14 There is a QA against the current version of namecoin* and upstreams
15 newest packages are no good.
16
17 >
18 > If they're blockers on other work, by all means cull them. However,
19 > if the biggest problem with them is that they're using a few inodes in
20 > the repo, then they should probably stay.
21 >
22
23 I have no strong feeling here, but I do want to get rid of them. So I'm
24 okay with maintainer-needed@ I'll let the discussion continue for a bit
25 and then do whatever the consensus is.
26
27 --
28 Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
29 Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened]
30 E-Mail : blueness@g.o
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