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On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 06:04:08PM +0100, Carsten Lohrke wrote: |
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> On Monday 31 October 2005 22:44, Petteri Räty wrote: |
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> > Checked the bugzilla and the two open bugs seem to be version bumps. I |
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> > think the policy is not to remove working ebuilds from the tree although |
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> > they are not maintained by anyone. |
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> It's not policy to keep unmaintained stuff in the repository either. |
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You are technically correct in the sense that there is literally no |
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policy stating "keep unmaintained stuff in the repository." |
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However, going around removing things simply because they're |
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unmaintained is no good. Unmaintained and broken is a different story. |
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