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From: Jeff Horelick <jdhore@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Unstabling a package
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 09:25:33
Message-Id: CAFhp8z5GM=mSuf+Fwfa8ENC7MCo-eUQoGmx_1N1LuhY8UJad8Q@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Unstabling a package by Doug Goldstein
1 On 19 February 2012 21:46, Doug Goldstein <cardoe@g.o> wrote:
2 > Any specific procedure to unstable a package? Specifically MythTV.
3 > While there's a lot of user interest in the package, there's just not
4 > enough dev help with the package to really keep it up to snuff to what
5 > could be considered stable. Its woefully behind and I'd just be
6 > happier to drop the current stable and bump everything as unstable.
7 >
8 > --
9 > Doug Goldstein
10 >
11
12 While i'm not willing to maintain mythtv myself (as I don't use it
13 (anymore)) or join the herd, what about contacting upstream as they
14 already have their own overlay [1] and see if they'd like to "proxy
15 maintain" the official Gentoo packages, sort of.
16
17 [1] https://github.com/MythTV/packaging/tree/master/Gentoo
18
19 JD

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Unstabling a package Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>