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On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 01:41 +0900, Chris White wrote: |
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> I just saw a bug report flow by for app-admin/mbr and looked for maintainers. I found this: |
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> ChangeLog: 1 manson, 1 woodchip |
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> from jeeves. Now, I think those people are retired, or I need to get out more (or both). So what to do with said package. It looks pretty old and this user wants it bumped so... I'd do it but I have no solid test method and I really don't like putting out packages without one. |
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I think this problem is not limited to this package. |
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Maybe someone with some scripting skillz could create a list of all |
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"orphaned" packages? |
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(no metadata.xml, no active maintainer, ...) |
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> If anyone is interested, the bug number is here: |
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> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96254 |
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> Otherwise we should do something about the fate of this package. |
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Either drop it or find a maintainer I guess. |
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Always a drag to see packages getting dropped, but if noone maintains |
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them there's not much that can be done. |
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Patrick |
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Stand still, and let the rest of the universe move |
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