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Hello everyone, |
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I intend to mask and later remove from portage the packages: |
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net-im/kxicq2: a kde icq client. Last change to upstream cvs was 5 months ago, |
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and it did not fix the problems that were already known to the author and to |
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us. Since ther are many good icq clients, I want to get rid of ths buggy one. |
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See bug #13105. |
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net-im/kpopper: a kde win-popup client. Cf bug #4788. Also apparently |
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unamaintained upstream with known issues, and there are alternatives in |
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portage (which don't require samba). |
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Since these packages aren't maintained upstream, someone who'd want to stop me |
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from removing them would have to not merely volunteer to work on the bugs |
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reported, but also to be responsible for it in the future. I.e. take on a |
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full or limited maintainership of the package itself, not just the ebuild - |
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or get upstream to respond. That, or have some other really good argument to |
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keep these packages... |
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If there are no replies, I'll mask them in a few days from now. Someone who's |
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subscribed to gentoo-user, please forward this there and ask them to cc: any |
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replies to me. |
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Thanks, |
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Dan Armak |
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Gentoo Linux developer (KDE) |
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Matan, Israel |
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Public GPG key: http://cvs.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key |
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