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[Pacho Ramos]

El sáb, 24-11-2012 a las 18:47 -0500, James Cloos escribió:
> The percentage of bogosity is nicely small, but there are a couple in
> there which shouldn't be dropped.
>
> > # Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> (24 Nov 2012)
> > # Lots of bug report, use version from science overlay as pointed
> > # in bug #339364#c3 . Removal in a month
> > sci-mathematics/scilab
>
> The version in portage (scilab 4) works fine here; I've never gotten
> scilab 5 (the version in sci) to build.
>
> So that should remain.

You can find, apart of pointed bug report, the following problems with
scilab versions in the tree:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=scilab&list_id=1403328

>
> Much worse, however, is this insanity:
>
> > # Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> (24 Nov 2012)
> > # Fail to start due missing fonts (bugs 395353, 402713, 429234).
> > # Removal in a month.
> > x11-misc/bbdate
> > x11-misc/bbweather
> > x11-misc/bbsload
>
> So, you advocate removing x11 client packages because, oooh, they
> require *server-side fonts*.  AIIIIGH!
>
> Seriously, it is "bug"-reports 395353 and 402713 which are flawed, not
> the packages.  And 429234, requesting stabilization, should get it.
>
> -JimC

Even in that stabilization bug 429234 it's pointed by arch testers that
package cannot be stabilized due that runtime errors and they also
suggest to punt it, even after installing fonts that should fix it, also
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=592108 is pointed in
addition