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>>>>> On Thu, 10 Mar 2022, Alec Warner wrote: |
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> I'm not sure a news item is strictly necessary, we might just p.mask |
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> repoman with a link to the guide that Matt will need to write about |
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> how repoman is being replaced. |
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We should distinguish between deprecating the repoman(-only) workflow |
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and deprecating the repoman tool. Doing the former doesn't imply masking |
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and removing the repoman package, at least not while it's working and |
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being maintained as part of Portage. |
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Also, what would be the harm in having another QA tool available in |
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addition to pkgcheck? (Long time ago, we used to have three of them. |
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Does anyone remember qualudis? :) |
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Ulrich |
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