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From: Christian Hoffmann <hoffie@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Upcoming masking of dev-lang/php-4* and packages depending on it
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:54:32
Message-Id: 20071011164311.5632293d@tux.home
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Upcoming masking of dev-lang/php-4* and packages depending on it by Christian Faulhammer
1 On 2007-10-11 at 07:58 +0200, Christian Faulhammer wrote:
2
3 > Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>:
4 >
5 > > On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 15:13:49 +0200
6 > > Christian Hoffmann <hoffie@g.o> wrote:
7 > > > I'm going to p.mask =dev-lang/php-4* and all packages explicitly
8 > > > depending on this version of php (i.e. the whole dev-php4/
9 > > > category (36 packages) and one webapp, www-apps/knowledgetree,
10 > > > bug 194894 [1]) next weekend (around Oct 14th). This step is
11 > > > necessary as there is hardly any upstream activity anymore.
12 > > You should probably post that in a more user-oriented channel, like
13 > > gentoo-announce and/or the forums to reduce the number of
14 > > "surprised" users [1]
15 Ok, haven't seen the thread, but it's probably a very good idea to
16 post something to -announce / forums anyway. I'll do that later today.
17
18 We'll also move the date of masking to Oct 18th, so that the wider
19 userbase has one full week time to "prepare" for the masking as well. :)
20
21
22 > Or even write a short summary for the GWN...they would be happy about
23 > it.
24 I already submitted something on the same day I sent the
25 -dev{,-announce} mail.
26
27 --
28 Christian Hoffmann
29 Gentoo PHP herd

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