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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: obsolete news items
Date: Fri, 31 May 2019 09:47:53
Message-Id: w6gk1e79cqu.fsf@kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] obsolete news items by Ulrich Mueller
1 >>>>> On Tue, 14 May 2019, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
2
3 > There are quite a few news items that appear to be no longer relevant.
4 > The following ones are from 2013 or earlier:
5
6 > 2007-05-04-paludis-0_24
7 > 2009-01-04-sparc-multilib
8 > 2009-04-06-x_server-1_5
9 > 2009-07-12-xorg-74-alpha
10 > 2009-10-02-xorg-server-1-6-libxcb-1_4
11 > 2009-10-08-gnome-226
12 > 2009-10-22-default-linux
13 > 2010-01-31-eselect-opengl
14 > 2010-02-21-mysql-upgrade
15 > 2010-02-28-layman-storage-path-change
16 > 2010-03-01-mythtv-upgrade
17 > 2010-03-23-new-subprofiles
18 > 2010-03-25-python-3_1
19 > 2010-05-02-gnome-228
20 > 2010-10-22-perl-5_12-upgrade-procedure
21 > 2010-10-27-hardened-gcc4-info
22 > 2010-11-13-hardened-profiles
23 > 2011-02-13-libgphoto2-2_4_10
24 > 2011-02-14-gnome-232
25 > 2011-02-19-ia64-java-removal
26 > 2011-04-26-gnustep-new-layout
27 > 2011-04-27-glib-228
28 > 2011-05-01-baselayout-update
29 > 2011-08-28-mesa-r600g
30 > 2011-10-15-libpng15
31 > 2011-11-27-gnome3-unmask
32 > 2011-12-06-kde473-kdepim
33 > 2011-12-30-bacula-updates
34 > 2012-02-14-baselayout-1-deprecation
35 > 2012-04-24-libjpeg-turbo-by-default
36 > 2012-07-23-upgrading-postfix
37 > 2013-02-10-new-13-profiles
38 > 2013-02-10-new-13-profiles-server
39 > 2013-03-29-udev-upgrade
40 > 2013-04-10-baselayout-1-deprecation-final-warning
41 > 2013-06-01-mysql-pbxt-dropped
42 > 2013-06-30-cups16
43 > 2013-08-07-vanilla-sources-stablization-policy
44 > 2013-09-22-minor-arches-1
45 > 2013-09-27-initramfs-required
46 > 2013-10-14-grub2-migration
47 > 2013-10-24-minor-arches-2
48 > 2013-11-07-python-exec-package-move
49 > 2013-11-23-gnome-38
50
51 > I suggest to delete all of these by the end of this month, unless
52 > somebody will speak up for keeping any particular item.
53
54 All gone.
55
56 Would it be reasonable to use the same schedule as for profiles/updates
57 in future, namely to remove everything older than 5 years? Of course,
58 that shouldn't stop anyone from removing a news item earlier if it has
59 become irrelevant.
60
61 Ulrich

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