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From: Tim Harder <radhermit@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: virtual/{cron,dev-manager,inetd,libc,linux-sources,man,os-headers,package-manager,skkserv,ssh,w3m}
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:24:44
Message-Id: 20110922182355.GC17516@freyja.radhermit.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: virtual/{cron,dev-manager,inetd,libc,linux-sources,man,os-headers,package-manager,skkserv,ssh,w3m} by Ulrich Mueller
1 On 2011-09-22 Thu 01:53, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
2 > In the course of the old-style to new-style transition of virtuals,
3 > I had taken maintainership of several new-style virtual packages.
4
5 > After several months have passed without any bugs showing up, I
6 > believe it's time that I drop maintainership of these:
7
8 > virtual/cron
9 > virtual/dev-manager
10 > virtual/inetd
11 > virtual/libc
12 > virtual/linux-sources
13 > virtual/man
14 > virtual/os-headers
15 > virtual/package-manager
16 > virtual/skkserv
17 > virtual/ssh
18 > virtual/w3m
19
20 > As these are virtuals, I won't expect that there will be much
21 > maintenance required. Also, all of them will fall back to (at least)
22 > one herd. Please check the respective metadata.xml files for details.
23
24 Personally I don't see why all of these need specific maintainers beyond
25 the herds they fall under already, especially if they are very low
26 maintenance.
27
28 Tim

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