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Enrico Weigelt wrote: |
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> * Petteri R?ty <betelgeuse@g.o> schrieb: |
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>> dev-java/saxon-bin is going to be removed from the tree as soon as the |
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>> from sources version dev-java/saxon gets marked stable on arches that |
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>> have saxon-bin stable. I will add a package move and a revision bump so |
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>> that user will have a smooth upgrade. I will also adjust app-text/jing |
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>> to work with the from sources version. |
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> Are such things also announced separately on some user list ? |
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> The problem I see: from the view of an common user (who's not |
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> reading the dev lists) packages they're using suddenly disappear. |
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> They don't have time to handle it properly. |
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> There should be an additional flagging (ie. scheduled for masking |
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> or removal), maybe such flags could be put into an separate |
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> database (ie. some textfile available via web or rsync). |
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Things scheduled for removal (by treecleaners, and I hope by many) enter |
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pmask prior to removal; this is really the current system of notification. |
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> An tool could check if the current system has some of those |
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> scheduled packages installed. |
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> cu |
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