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On 02-06-2011 18:20, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: |
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> I'd like to remove<net-print/foo2zjs-99999999. Non-live versions are |
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> severely outdated (2008) and unusable (upstream changes tarballs |
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> in-place, digest verification is broken). |
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> The upstream doesn't support snapshots of the tarball, and claims the |
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> auxiliary files cannot be redistributed. |
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> I think the best course of action is to leave just the live ebuild (I'm |
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> using it on one system that has a printer that requires it). |
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> If there are no objections, I'm going to make the change. My guess is |
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> that most people don't care about this abandoned package, and the people |
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> who are using it will appreciate removal of the brokenness. |
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I use the foo2zjs package, and because other versions are broken, have |
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moved to the live version. But I think expecting a stable version in the |
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tree is not too much for a user. A tarball snapshot in a ~dev space |
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would solve the issue I presume. |
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Further problems with the current live ebuild are as follows. It seems |
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that I have forgotten to file bugs about these issues previously. |
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* Does not install PPD files (bug #369819) |
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* Does not use FOO2ZJS_DEVICES from previous versions, thus downloads |
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lots of tar files multiple times. (bug #369821) |
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Existance of previous ebuilds *currently*; allows for comparison, |
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detection, and hopefully fixing of these issues. |
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Gökdeniz Karadağ |
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