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On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 7:53 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò |
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<flameeyes@×××××××××.eu> wrote: |
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> I'm not saying that we should remove a package because it has one |
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> trivial bug not fixed in three months. But when upstream is dead, and |
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> nobody in Gentoo is caring for it, has half a dozen open bug (trivial or |
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> not), unsolved or unsolvable for over an year... punt the crap from the |
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> tree and reduce the overload. |
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Open trivial bugs don't create any overload, except for those who go |
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looking at them and worrying about them at night. |
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As long as it builds on 80%+ of systems and has no serious issues |
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(security in particular) there is no reason to remove a package. Yes, |
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quality issues might cause it to have issues on 80% of systems in the |
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future, and when that happens prune it. |
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I have no idea how many open bugs Gentoo has. The reason for this is |
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that I search for bugs that I care about, and the only thing that has |
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to worry about the rest is the database server. If we had a trillion |
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open bugs I'd start worrying about that more, though simply closing |
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them wouldn't help in that case. |
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Remove things when they cause problems, not before. |
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Rich |
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