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On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 18:42:19 Jauhien Piatlicki wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I would ask an opinion about what to do with packages that have invalid |
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> SRC_URI (pointing to non-existent sources) and severe compilation problems. |
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> I'm trying to fix ebuilds that lead to `repoman full` failures now, so |
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> we will be able to have automatic repoman checks for pull requests. Some |
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> ebuilds are really outdated and quite hard to fix (e.g. I tried to do |
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> version bump for sci-physics/bigdft, but I failed as new version does |
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> not compile and error is in fortran code, that I do not understand). |
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> So what to do with such outdated not working stuff? As nobody makes |
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> issues/bugs about it, I think, we can just remove unmaintained broken |
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> packages from the overlay. |
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I guess if someone is using it they will complain. Then it can be their |
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job to fix it :) |
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Francois |
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