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On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 11:13 +0200, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: |
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> On Thursday 16 June 2005 10:53, Patrick Lauer wrote: |
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> > Maybe someone with some scripting skillz could create a list of all |
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> > "orphaned" packages? |
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> > (no metadata.xml, no active maintainer, ...) |
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> I've learned with first-person experience that no metadata doesn't means that |
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> a package is orphaned... |
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ok, but it's still a "bug" |
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> So maybe it's better said to developers: if you maintain something *please* |
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> add a metadata, or update it, so that who looks at bugs know who to ask to. |
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For that we should have a list of all affected packages I think. |
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> > Always a drag to see packages getting dropped, but if noone maintains |
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> > them there's not much that can be done. |
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> Well maybe we can have a way to define "latest portage version" for removed |
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> package (a tag on cvs?) so that someone can prepare a weekly tarball of |
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> removed packages waiting for new maintainers or so on. |
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you mean a repository of removed ebuilds? |
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I don't know if that is a good idea, but it sure has some uses. |
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But if I'm not mistaken files can be resurrected from cvs, so they are |
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not "lost", only less accessible. |
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Patrick |
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Stand still, and let the rest of the universe move |