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11.11.2013 13:32, Manuel Rüger wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I recently noticed it twice, that it seems to be common practice to |
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> remove a package without using the methods described in [1], but just |
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> dropping it from cvs. |
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> From my observations packages removed without last-rites could be |
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> characterized by this: |
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> |
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> - it was a dependency of another package |
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> - this package dropped / incorporated the dependency |
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> - no other packages depend on it |
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> - there are possible forks or updates, but maintainer doesn't care^W^W |
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> has no interest |
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+1, this should be documented IMO. I last-rite |
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games-strategy/seven-kingdoms-data recently without sending notice, |
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cause last versions of games-strategy/seven-kingdoms includes all of |
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it's data. |
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> This might work for the main tree, but it won't for overlays, that might |
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> also depend on these packages (because they have a patched / older |
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> version of your maintained package). |
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We are trying not to break overlays, but we also can not guarantee full |
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support for them. |
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-- |
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Best regards, Sergey Popov |
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Gentoo developer |
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Gentoo Desktop Effects project lead |
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Gentoo Qt project lead |
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Gentoo Proxy maintainers project lead |
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