Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Please stop useless removals

[Philip Webb]

130201 Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Richard Yao <ryao@g.o> wrote:
>> The actual reason for removal is the following:
>>   https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425298
> I'm perfectly fine with masking/removing packages
> that do not have valid SRC_URIs
> and if somebody wants to host the tarball somewhere
> and submit a patch to fix it we shouldn't have a problem
> with a dev committing that patch and prolonging the package a bit longer.
> Bottom line is that we shouldn't drop packages
> simply because they're unmaintained or lack an upstream.

+1

> Missing SRC_URIs on unmaintained packages are fair game, however,
> as are other serious issues.  I have no desire
> to make the mirror maintainers sort thro log noise on something like this.

If a mere user may comment (smile),
I use  >= 1  pkg which hasn't been updated for a long time, Apwal,
but is in fact an excellent little app which deserves wider knowledge.
It's one of those apps which needs no further development.

There are also pkgs like Nethack, which is hard-masked
because there's a serious security bug on multi-user systems,
but which offers no problems on a single-user desktop.

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