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On Wednesday 03 March 2010 18:29:13 Mark Loeser wrote: |
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> Michael Sterrett <mr_bones_@g.o> said: |
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> > I've remove the mask for games-fps/openarena. |
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> > |
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> > The mask was done without consulting the games team. |
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> This is no reason to remove the mask. The games team had more than |
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> enough time to fix the package. I'll be adding the mask back as the |
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> package is vulnerable via multiple bundled libs and therefore shouldn't |
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> be in the tree. You can apply the patches if you want to keep it and |
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> remove the mask at that time. |
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> Thanks, |
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This thread is yet another proof that we need to introduce a "Upcoming |
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masking" for unmaintained packages. |
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Instead of first masking a package and then announce it, we can simply announce |
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that we are gonna mask the package in 10days if there is no activity on the |
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respective bug |
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Markos Chandras (hwoarang) |
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Gentoo Linux Developer |
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Web: http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org |
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