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On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 8:39 PM, <schism@×××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> Why was a valid package removed for an errant comment in the ebuild? |
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> It's not dead upstream, and someone (me) took the time to actually look |
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> at it and note that the issue was at least mostly addressed, except for |
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> the comment. |
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I'm pretty sure the practices used by that ebuild are totally |
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inappropriate in gentoo-x86 (if they had used USE flags perhaps....) |
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Packages that have no active maintainer are removed by the |
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treecleaners all the time. The entire point of treecleaners is to |
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either fix or remove dead packages from the tree. |
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> Then again, what's one more in my overlay of 54 packages, most of which |
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> have had valid fixes posted for months, if not years? |
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We don't have the staff to do one-off-fixes for all these packages. |
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They sit in maintainer-needed for months or years (as you stated |
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above.) It becomes painfully obvious that they are not used enough to |
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be maintained to gentoo-x86 standards which is why they get removed. |
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I'd love to be able to say that treecleaners should never remove |
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anything from the tree and should patch everything. However the team |
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is small and there are hundreds of unmaintained packages in the tree |
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so the team opts to remove packages that look too screwed up to keep. |
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As you have noted users are encouraged to keep said packages in a |
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personal overlay or sunrise[1]. |
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[1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/treecleaners/index.xml#doc_chap7 |
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> --dc |
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> ----- Forwarded message from bugzilla-daemon@g.o ----- |
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> Subject: [Bug 150091] app-forensics/samhain ebuild issues |
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> To: schism@×××××××××.org |
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> From: bugzilla-daemon@g.o |
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> Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 20:04:25 +0000 (UTC) |
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> darkside@g.o changed: |
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> What |Removed |Added |
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> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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> Status|NEW |RESOLVED |
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> Keywords|PMASKED | |
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> Resolution| |FIXED |
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> Status Whiteboard|Pending removal 22. 5. 2010 |Pending removal: 2010-05-22 |
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> ------- Comment #6 from darkside@g.o 2010-06-12 20:04 0000 ------- |
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> removed from tree |
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