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Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:57:37 -0500 Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> |
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> wrote: |
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> | I picked a random e-mail to reply to. I don't maintain that many |
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> | packages (maybe 10 or so?). But if I have a bug (particularly a sec |
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> | bug as in this case) and you haven't stablized it after five months |
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> | then I'll probably just nuke the ebuild and drop your keywords |
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> Which is dumb. There's no harm to be had in just leaving the ebuild |
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> there. |
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I'm just trying to make my life as an ebuild maintainer easier. This |
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means some individuals may file bugs against an old crusty version of a |
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package that I maintain because $arch hasn't keyworded a newer version |
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yet. Then I have to tell the user that they are using a crusty old |
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version and to use a newer one. Double bonus if they are actually using |
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said $arch and need to keyword the newer version themselves. |
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I'll admit I've never had to drop keywords on anything thus far; I'm |
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merely stating what I would do in such a situation. Your point prior |
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was that you weren't asking maintainers to maintain anything extra, but |
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to leave the old ebuilds in place for the given $arches. The small |
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issue is that ebuilds in place imply maintainership; even if it's just |
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to tell the user to use a newer version. |
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On the topic of old ebuilds; situations may arise where a particular |
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maintainer is trying to clean out a version of a package but finds that |
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$arch doesn't have anything newer stable and thus can't do any sort of |
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cleanup for fear of breaking $arch. |
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You will probably again state that maintainer should just leave the |
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older versions around. I will state that at least as a maintainer I'm |
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willing to do so for only a limited period of time. Otherwise it |
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becomes an annoyance when trying to clean up after packages to have |
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ebuilds from three or four minor versions ago lying around. |
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So we disagree on this point. Thats ok too I think ;) |
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-Alec Warner |
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antarus@g.o |
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