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On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:51:34 +0200 |
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Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@g.o> wrote: |
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> Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> > On Tuesday 27 October 2009 14:46:31 Petteri Räty wrote: |
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> >> Normally old versions are not kept around as already said if you |
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> >> read the thread. |
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> > "normal" is not the same thing as "always". unless you're the |
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> > maintainer, you have no idea whether old versions are kept there on |
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> > purpose. ive had people delete older versions of packages on me |
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> > simply because they made this invalid assumption without talking to |
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> > the maintainer. the rest of the thread is irrelevant as this point |
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> > was not made. |
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> Yes I have no idea. That's why I asked on gentoo-dev-announce for |
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> maintainers to tell me if they are kept on purpose so the point was |
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> made already at the very start. |
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Still, it has already been stated but: please file bugs! A big tracker |
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would probably be messy, one bug / herd or category could be better. |
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You did file some bugs at some point, where I was in the assigned herd |
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and did proceed quickly I think. Why did you stop? Some were just |
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straight removal, some did need some other removal in order to be clean |
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(this may be due to the fact that packages didnt work with latest |
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versions but didn't have restricted deps on the package that would have |
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to be removed). |
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I am not following -dev very carefully and am too lazy to dig in a list |
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posted on -dev-announce to find out if I need to do something or not. A |
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bug makes that easy to track and is the usual way of getting ebuild |
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changes done in the tree. We rant on users who report bugs on -dev, I'm |
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afraid the the same applies to developers :) |
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Also, remark that your script is flawed, I see some freebsd stuff in |
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your list which are certainly the best visible version on some |
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profiles. Again, this will be better tracked in a bug. |
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Alexis. |