Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving unmaintained packages to Sunrise

[Sebastian Pipping]

On 06/13/10 16:26, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote:
> If we want to find a way to not drop the maintainer-needed packages, I'd
> prefer we move them to sunset and not to sunrise.

Agreed.

If there is a user-maintainer move to sunrise, if there isn't move to
sunset.


> As this overlay is
> likely to become large, probably "huge", and as it will host security
> vulnerable packages, we should evaluate whether we really want to host
> it and, if so, what measures to take to protect "distracted users". I
> think package masking all the packages put there with links to relevant
> bugs might be a first step.

We introduced a "graveyard" quality level to layman recently that allows
for marking such repositories (and a split tree in the future).
Quoting the current repositories.dtd:

  [..]
  quality (core|stable|testing|experimental|graveyard) #REQUIRED
  [..]

So Layman can be made handling such a repo specially, say displaying
certain warnings.



Sebastian