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From: Hans de Graaff <graaff@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] status of ruby 1.8.7?
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:30:40
Message-Id: 1230067835.7588.3.camel@ip6-localhost
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] status of ruby 1.8.7? by "Hanno Böck"
1 On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 12:48 +0100, Hanno Böck wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > We have ruby 1.8.7 in the tree masked since April.
5 >
6 > # Richard Brown <rbrown@g.o> (16 Apr 2008)
7 > # Masked for test
8 > =dev-lang/ruby-1.8.7*
9 >
10 > There's no tracker bug or anything alike about the status of unmasking, so I
11 > wanted to ask what's the status here.
12
13 Hanno also opened a bug and I've responded there:
14 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=252257
15
16 > Beside, I'd like to repeat that I think it's a very bad idea to add new
17 > packages to package.mask "for testing" without any further information.
18 > Usually a tracker bug is a good idea, but any other note where to find
19 > information what needs to be done to get things ready is fine.
20
21 Agreed. This was an old mask from before the recent discussion about
22 this. I've updated the package.mask information accordingly.
23
24 Kind regards,
25
26 Hans

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