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From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: x11-wm/ion2
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 01:46:49
Message-Id: 1189560987.8923.16.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: x11-wm/ion2 by Josh Saddler
1 On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 17:54 -0700, Josh Saddler wrote:
2 > Mike Doty wrote:
3 > > Matti Bickel wrote:
4 > >> Hi,
5 > >> as previously mentioned, ion2 is currently broken (bug #167468) and
6 > >> going away in favour of the soon to be stable x11-wm/ion3.
7 > >>
8 > >> It will be p.masked and removed in 30 days unless someone speaks up and
9 > >> solves the issues surrounding slotted lua among others (see the bug for
10 > >> details).
11 > > didn't we yank ion from the tree because of upstream license problems?
12 >
13 > That's what I'd thought, too:
14 >
15 > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-559010.html
16 >
17 > Did something change? Has upstream stopped being stupid? Is he an actual
18 > human being now? Or is someone forking the code (but retaining the ion3
19 > name)?
20
21 Ehh... the Last Rites was for ion2, not ion3...
22
23 --
24 Chris Gianelloni
25 Release Engineering Strategic Lead
26 Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams
27 Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee
28 Gentoo Foundation

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: x11-wm/ion2 "Dawid Węgliński" <cla@g.o>