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From: Brian Dolbec <dolsen@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due loki_val retirement
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 16:52:39
Message-Id: 1322153498.24330.78.camel@big_daddy.dol-sen.ca
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due loki_val retirement by Pacho Ramos
1 On Thu, 2011-11-24 at 17:14 +0100, Pacho Ramos wrote:
2 > El jue, 24-11-2011 a las 07:37 -0800, Brian Dolbec escribió:
3 > > On Thu, 2011-11-24 at 15:47 +0100, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote:
4 > > > On 11/24/11 1:38 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
5 > > > > Due loki_val retirement the following packages need a new maintainer:
6 > > > >
7 > > > > dev-util/lafilefixer
8 > > >
9 > > > Do we still need lafilefixer? I think it's been integrated into portage,
10 > > > right?
11 > > >
12 > >
13 > > I believe it is still needed as a standalone utility to fix existing
14 > > installations broken by pkg upgrades. The integrated one fixes new
15 > > pkgs, not existing ones.
16 > >
17 > > I still see those problems coming up in the forums, although not nearly
18 > > as often as before.
19 >
20 > Also maybe it could still be needed by people using other package
21 > manager (but I am a portage user and don't know how these problems are
22 > solved in pkgcore/paludis :-/)
23
24 pkgcore has an lafilefixer integrated too.
25 --
26 Brian Dolbec <dolsen@g.o>

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