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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: virtual/{cron,dev-manager,inetd,libc,linux-sources,man,os-headers,package-manager,skkserv,ssh,w3m}
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 19:55:27
Message-Id: 201109221554.27959.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: virtual/{cron,dev-manager,inetd,libc,linux-sources,man,os-headers,package-manager,skkserv,ssh,w3m} by Tim Harder
1 On Thursday, September 22, 2011 14:23:55 Tim Harder wrote:
2 > On 2011-09-22 Thu 01:53, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
3 > > In the course of the old-style to new-style transition of virtuals,
4 > > I had taken maintainership of several new-style virtual packages.
5 > >
6 > > After several months have passed without any bugs showing up, I
7 > >
8 > > believe it's time that I drop maintainership of these:
9 > > virtual/cron
10 > > virtual/dev-manager
11 > > virtual/inetd
12 > > virtual/libc
13 > > virtual/linux-sources
14 > > virtual/man
15 > > virtual/os-headers
16 > > virtual/package-manager
17 > > virtual/skkserv
18 > > virtual/ssh
19 > > virtual/w3m
20 > >
21 > > As these are virtuals, I won't expect that there will be much
22 > > maintenance required. Also, all of them will fall back to (at least)
23 > > one herd. Please check the respective metadata.xml files for details.
24 >
25 > Personally I don't see why all of these need specific maintainers beyond
26 > the herds they fall under already, especially if they are very low
27 > maintenance.
28
29 right. if they don't have herds, then almost all of these are obvious as to
30 which they should get added to.
31 -mike

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