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On Thu, 9 Nov 2006 03:23:42 +0000 |
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Saleem Abdulrasool <compnerd@g.o> wrote: |
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> Description: |
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> GNOME 1.x is no longer supported by upstream GNOME developers. |
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> Maintaining GNOME 1.x adds unnecessary complexity to the Gentoo GNOME |
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> developers' workload. Some of the contributing factors are security |
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> vulnerabilities, as-needed fixes, and general breakages over time due to |
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> lower level package changes. |
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> Resolution: |
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> The GNOME herd has decided to remove GNOME 1.x and its dependent packages |
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> from the tree. GTK+-1 and glib-1 will not be removed at this time however. |
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> Effective a week from this message (15/11/2006), the attached package list |
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> will be masked for 30 days and then the packages will be removed from the |
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> tree on (15/12/2006). |
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> How to dispute the resolution: |
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> 1) You can comment on bug #154102, OR |
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> 2) Contact the GNOME herd on freenode in #gentoo-desktop, OR |
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> 3) Email the herd lead, allanonjl@g.o |
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> Please do NOT reply to this message with a reason why package X should not be |
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> masked. If you feel strongly about a package, please port it to GTK+-2 and |
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> submit patches on a new bug. |
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Could you provide the script that generated those lists (or was it done manually)? I'm not so sure that it is accurate, at least I can't see why <sylpheed-claws-2 is in the list (the only relevant unconditional dep is gtk-1). |
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Marius |
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