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From: "Paweł Hajdan
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: removal of <net-print/foo2zjs-99999999 (earlier versions are fubar)
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 07:05:53
Message-Id: 4DE881DA.6030806@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: removal of by "Gökdeniz Karadağ"
1 On 6/2/11 6:04 PM, Gökdeniz Karadağ wrote:
2 > I use the foo2zjs package, and because other versions are broken, have
3 > moved to the live version. But I think expecting a stable version in the
4 > tree is not too much for a user. A tarball snapshot in a ~dev space
5 > would solve the issue I presume.
6
7 We can't have a tarball, most of the files from the package are
8 non-redistributable.
9
10 > Further problems with the current live ebuild are as follows. It seems
11 > that I have forgotten to file bugs about these issues previously.
12 > * Does not install PPD files (bug #369819)
13 > * Does not use FOO2ZJS_DEVICES from previous versions, thus downloads
14 > lots of tar files multiple times. (bug #369821)
15
16 I replied on those bugs. Thank you for reporting.
17
18 > Existance of previous ebuilds *currently*; allows for comparison,
19 > detection, and hopefully fixing of these issues.
20
21 They'll always be in the CVS history.

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