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From: "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Unused ebuild built_with_use cleanup
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:10:05
Message-Id: 4AE6F11C.9010804@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Unused ebuild built_with_use cleanup by Mike Frysinger
1 Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > On Tuesday 27 October 2009 02:07:02 Ryan Hill wrote:
3 >> On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 11:48:39 +0200 Petteri Räty wrote:
4 >>> James Cloos wrote:
5 >>>> When you first psoted this list I noticed some (or several?) live
6 >>>> ebuilds. Git-9999 is the one I remember.
7 >>>>
8 >>>> Those should not get nuked during global cleanups, as they are likely
9 >>>> to be in active use notwithstanding their keywording or masking.
10 >>> Their maintainers should be active and switch their ebuilds to EAPI 2.
11 >>> If they don't have an active maintainer, then do we want to keep live
12 >>> ebuilds for them around?
13 >> Your stated goal was to remove unused ebuilds, which live ebuilds are not,
14 >> regardless of the status of the maintainer. And I'm pretty sure git has an
15 >> active maintainer. :P
16 >
17 > indeed. you really should file bugs for these instead of deleting ebuilds on
18 > people who missed a thread on gentoo-dev.
19 > -mike
20
21 All developers are required to follow gentoo-dev-announce. If they don't
22 follow that, it can't be expected for them to follow bugzilla either.
23
24 Regards,
25 Petteri

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