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Am Freitag, 1. Februar 2013, 14:53:19 schrieb Tomáš Chvátal: |
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> just to be sure here "Removals are completely up to the maintainer to |
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> decide", with expection of QA removal where the package must be |
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> already broken to get punted. |
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> If you as developers and users find some package useful you can retake |
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> the maintainership (or became proxy-maint) which also expects you to |
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> take care of the bugs (QA can prune it even if you take the |
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> maintainership but ignore failures [even if your personal feeling is |
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> that it is corner case, it is for QA to deicde]). |
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I agree 100% that we should not accumulate cruft in the tree and that removals |
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are necessary. Please however, |
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*** write meaningful log or mask messages *** !!! |
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"Old and uses IMake" is not really a reason for treecleaning. "Fortify crash |
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on start and unuseable on fast machines" definitely is. |
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Cheers, A |
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Andreas K. Huettel |
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Gentoo Linux developer |
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dilfridge@g.o |
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http://www.akhuettel.de/ |
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