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IAN DELANEY posted on Thu, 06 Jun 2013 17:55:16 +0800 as excerpted: |
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> # Ian Delaney <idella4@g.o> (06 Jun 2013) |
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> # Masked for removal in ~ 30 days. Upstream inactive dev-python/elixir |
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Where's the bug reference one would normally expect to see with such an |
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announcement? |
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AFAIK, simply inactive upstream hasn't traditionally been enough to |
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trigger removal, as long as the package still builds and has no serious |
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bugs, and is still either legally mirrored and redistributable, or |
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remains legally available from an otherwise inactive upstream. |
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Of course if there's serious bugs (including that it's no longer |
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available to build in the first place), that's an entirely different |
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matter, but then there should be a reference to such bugs in the |
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announcement/mask, and there was no such reference in this case. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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