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On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 10:53 +0200, Patrick Lauer wrote: |
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> On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 01:41 +0900, Chris White wrote: |
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> > I just saw a bug report flow by for app-admin/mbr and looked for maintainers. I found this: |
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> > ChangeLog: 1 manson, 1 woodchip |
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> > from jeeves. Now, I think those people are retired, or I need to get out more (or both). So what to do with said package. It looks pretty old and this user wants it bumped so... I'd do it but I have no solid test method and I really don't like putting out packages without one. |
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Ehh... the user that filed the bug could test it for you. |
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> I think this problem is not limited to this package. |
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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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Yes, it would be nice to get a list of these packages, but *not* for |
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removing them. In many cases these packages "work" and have no bugs |
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filed against them, so what is gained by removing them? |
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> > If anyone is interested, the bug number is here: |
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> > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96254 |
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> > Otherwise we should do something about the fate of this package. |
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> Either drop it or find a maintainer I guess. |
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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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How about leave it alone? |
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I can understand if there is no maintainer and there are a ton of bugs |
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filed against it (or even just one critical one), but for a package |
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where the only "bug" is a version bump request? Just ask the user to |
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test the ebuild, then commit it. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager |
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