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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-nntp/inn
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:25:12
Message-Id: 201001130924.33139.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-nntp/inn by "Tomáš Chvátal"
1 On Tuesday 12 January 2010 15:51:28 Tomáš Chvátal wrote:
2 > Your approach of adding new packages to main tree is that you add them
3 > with empty metadata.xml and we have to remove them in few years because
4 > they are steaming piles of bugs...
5
6 not that this is relevant at all to my point, but when i notice such bugs,
7 i'll fix them. but if no one cc's me, then i dont generally notice.
8
9 > Lack of maintainer
10
11 incorrect
12
13 > open bugs are valid reasons.
14
15 the *type* of bug matters, not the existence of an open bug. take any number
16 of the trivial QA bugs open related to an extra empty dir or split docs --
17 none are valid for punting an otherwise perfectly working package.
18
19 > And since WE want to enable as-needed as default at some time we need to
20 > work on the bugs
21
22 which isnt going to happen
23 -mike

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-nntp/inn Richard Freeman <rich0@g.o>