Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2017-05-28 23:59 UTC

[Michał Górny]

On pon, 2017-05-29 at 12:10 +0300, nunojsilva@×××××××.pt wrote:
> On 2017-05-29, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
>
> > The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed
> > from the tree, for the week ending 2017-05-28 23:59 UTC.
> >
> > Removals:
> > app-editors/vim-qt                  20170525-10:36 mgorny       1aff8d7da4e
>
> This was announced here in April[1]. As soon as it was announced, Gordon
> Pettey commented here[2] that upstream was fine.
>
> A quick inspection to the $HOMEPAGE seems to point out that, at some
> point, the bitbucket repository was the main one, and github was a
> "mirror". But, by looking at the github mirror[3], it looks like
> upstream has been quite active, just not in bitbucket.
>
> The README at github also hints that this is for Vim 8, which seems to
> be the in-tree version of Vim.
>
> The move to github was also mentioned in gentoo bug 607136[4],
> comment 2.
>
> Why was this last-rited with the reasoning of "Doesn't work with any
> in-tree versions of vim. Inactive upstream.", when upstream seems to be
> active *and* this was mentioned both on the mailing list and on
> bugzilla?

Because apparently nobody cared enough to fix the core issue (bump it).
If you want it back, you are free to re-add it.

> [1] http://marc.info/?l=gentoo-dev&m=149294484724875
> [2] http://marc.info/?l=gentoo-dev&m=149295586026533&w=2
> [3] https://github.com/equalsraf/vim-qt/commits/master
> [4] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=607136
>

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Best regards,
Michał Górny