[gentoo-dev] Re: Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2017-05-28 23:59 UTC

On 2017-05-29, Robin H. Johnson wrote:

> The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed
> from the tree, for the week ending 2017-05-28 23:59 UTC.
>
> Removals:
> app-editors/vim-qt                  20170525-10:36 mgorny       1aff8d7da4e

This was announced here in April[1]. As soon as it was announced, Gordon
Pettey commented here[2] that upstream was fine.

A quick inspection to the $HOMEPAGE seems to point out that, at some
point, the bitbucket repository was the main one, and github was a
"mirror". But, by looking at the github mirror[3], it looks like
upstream has been quite active, just not in bitbucket.

The README at github also hints that this is for Vim 8, which seems to
be the in-tree version of Vim.

The move to github was also mentioned in gentoo bug 607136[4],
comment 2.

Why was this last-rited with the reasoning of "Doesn't work with any
in-tree versions of vim. Inactive upstream.", when upstream seems to be
active *and* this was mentioned both on the mailing list and on
bugzilla?

[1] http://marc.info/?l=gentoo-dev&m=149294484724875
[2] http://marc.info/?l=gentoo-dev&m=149295586026533&w=2
[3] https://github.com/equalsraf/vim-qt/commits/master
[4] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=607136

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Nuno Silva