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On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o> wrote: |
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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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>> > 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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<sarcasm> |
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Shall I file those forms in triplicate and fax them to the main office sir? |
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</sarcasm> |
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Since amazingly I actually started the Treecleaners project; the |
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intent was actually to fix problems with packages. Part of the |
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problem is that there are hundreds of packages in the tree and the |
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fixes vary in complexity so it is difficult to create hard-and-fast |
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rules on when to keep a package versus when to toss it. One of the |
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things I like about masking is that it quickly gets people who |
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actually care about the package up to bat to fix it instead of leaving |
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it broken for months. I realize maintainers do not exactly enjoy this |
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kind of poking, however when things have been left for long enough I |
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believe our options become a bit more limited (in this case, masking |
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for removal due to unfixed sec bugs.) |
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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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> -- |
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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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