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On Sunday 16 April 2006 11:17, foser wrote: |
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> On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 14:24 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> > and it helps no one to go around cutting packages that have no |
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> > outstanding issues with them |
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> Sure it helps keep Gentoo clean and up-to-date, the load of packages |
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> that are outdated are often unmaintained as well. The one leads to the |
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> other. Anyway, nobody would know about outstanding issues that popped |
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> up, because there is no maintainer to assign them to. |
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and then people send out last-rites notices in those cases |
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> > there was an outstanding issue with cccc, but i resolved that |
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> How do you know you resolved it, you don't get bugreports on it do you ? |
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well the logical thing would be to go to bugzilla and search for "cccc" ... |
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and guess what ? no more open bug reports |
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> I mean, you aren't the maintainer. And there is still the outstanding |
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> issue that it is unmaintained in Gentoo, are you going to fix that or |
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> not ? Otherwise it should be masked and removed. |
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this is the same argument as already made and rejected ... feel free to mask |
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and remove the hundreds of other packages that have no maintainer |
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-mike |
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