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On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 09:32:21 -0400 Chris Gianelloni |
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<wolf31o2@g.o> wrote: |
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| On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 11:58 +0200, Torsten Veller wrote: |
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| > (take it if you want, otherwise it might be removed from the tree). |
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| No. It goes to maintainer-needed and only is a candidate for removal |
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| if it is broken or has a serious security flaw and isn't patched |
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| upstream. |
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... or is out of date to the extent that upstream don't consider it |
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supported any more, or if it is unmaintained upstream and a better |
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maintained replacement package exists, or if it has dependencies upon a |
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version of a package which is being removed. |
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Really though, wouldn't this be an ideal opportunity to remove the odd |
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bit of dross from the tree? I mean, take fortune-mod-gentoo-forums for |
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example... Is it really worth keeping around? |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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