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On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 12:38 PM, Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o> wrote: |
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> Ohey, |
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> as you might have noticed I've just corrected the metadata.xml of all |
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> elasticsearch-related packages. |
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> For some strange reason I was listed there as maintainer, but since no one |
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> wanted to listen to my ideas I guess I wasn't. So now last person who |
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> touched it gets stuck with it. |
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> Since proxy-maint refuses to be removed from packages (especially since |
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> they were unconditionally added to all packages with a non-gentoo-dev |
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> maintainer in metadata) they are the de facto maintainers, and overrule |
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> everything else. |
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> I've tried multiple strategies including removing them from metadata, but |
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> ... see app-admin/elasticsearch, proxy-maint is like the toe fungus that |
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> always comes back (e.g. commit f0925c10834464e62ce7209f2afa7797b594d350 ) |
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> Sometimes it's almost absurdly funny, especially when you commit |
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> RESTRICT="test" because tests fail reliably just to have that reverted. |
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> (See dev-python/elasticsearch-py ) |
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> Bonus mention: |
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> bbdc5412061adf598ed935697441a7d6b05f7614 |
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> app-admin/logstash-bin: drop old |
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> Signed-off-by: Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o> |
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> That removed the versions I was using, so I better maintain the versions I |
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> use in an overlay. Well ok then. |
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I don't quite get this gripe. Gentoo is a rolling distro. Versions of |
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things "you are using" get removed and replaced with newer versions all the |
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time. Why is this a big deal now? |
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-A |
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> Since I, as maintainer, can't ... anything, well [CENSORED] this, now they |
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> are your packages. Don't try to reassign or drop them: You've demanded, |
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> insisted, to be maintainers ... wish granted. |
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> So, err, well, is like ... wtf? I'm not sure how this all makes sense, but |
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> it's Not My Problem now. Take care now, bye bye then. |
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> Oh, and Erki Ferenc was in metadata too, he's been inactive but told me |
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> that he wants to continue maintaining these packages in the near future. If |
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> he asks I'd recommend adding him back. |
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> Patrick |
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> P.S. If this sounds a bit incoherent, well ... the whole situation is, I |
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> have no idea what's going on or why I was in metadata ;) |
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