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From: Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: Re: [gentoo-dev] masking and removing *coin packages
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2016 14:42:25
Message-Id: CAGfcS_nD-_3K6OhTVz-bQ=Mh3YTw4+oxUPW44jVO97_KFtynrQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Fwd: Re: [gentoo-dev] masking and removing *coin packages by "Anthony G. Basile"
1 On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Anthony G. Basile <blueness@g.o> wrote:
2 >
3 > Also there's some debate in IRC about whether or not these packages
4 > should be lastrited or dropped to maintainer-needed. These forks are
5 > not in good shape upstream, so I think it makes better sense to
6 > p.mask/lastrite and then move them to the graveyard overlay when I
7 > remove them from the tree in 30 days.
8 >
9
10 IMO the criteria should be whether they work or not. Not whether
11 upstream is more or less active.
12
13 If they're blockers on other work, by all means cull them. However,
14 if the biggest problem with them is that they're using a few inodes in
15 the repo, then they should probably stay.
16
17 --
18 Rich

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] masking and removing *coin packages Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] masking and removing *coin packages "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o>