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From: "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Dropping ia64/ppc/sparc profiles to dev/exp
Date: Tue, 09 May 2017 13:37:02
Message-Id: 89d0964b-12de-20d6-ae1f-778d36ff202f@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Dropping ia64/ppc/sparc profiles to dev/exp by Michael Orlitzky
1 On 5/9/17 8:33 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
2 > On 05/09/2017 04:12 AM, Rich Freeman wrote:
3 >> On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 12:23 AM, Yury German <blueknight@g.o> wrote:
4 >>>
5 >>> we can not call for cleanup or release the GLSA,
6 >>> waiting for a stabilization of a non-core package, while the actual
7 >>> package has been in a tree in ~arch status for weeks or months.
8 >>
9 >> Why not? If an arch is considered a non-security-supported arch then
10 >> you would just ignore it in a security bug.
11 >>
12 >
13 > For example, I can't remove the ancient and vulnerable nagios-3.5.1
14 > because an alternative is missing keywords:
15 >
16 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=605724
17 >
18 > If I drop nagios-3.5.1 without the keywords, pnp4nagios breaks.
19 >
20 >
21
22 Perhaps I'm missing the issue, but can you just follow the dependencies
23 and drop keywords accordingly so the tree remains consistent.
24
25 --
26 Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
27 Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened]
28 E-Mail : blueness@g.o
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Dropping ia64/ppc/sparc profiles to dev/exp Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>