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From: Alec Warner <warnera6@×××××××.edu>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] metadata revised - removal of packages
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 13:31:50
Message-Id: 43218E3D.3080206@egr.msu.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] metadata revised - removal of packages by Mike Frysinger
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4 Mike Frysinger wrote:
5 > On Friday 09 September 2005 05:58 am, Torsten Veller wrote:
6 >
7 >>2)
8 >>What is the next step after the last maintainer is removed from
9 >>metadata.xml? Well i announced these packages on -dev. Now i can wait some
10 >>time (how long?) and then?
11 >
12 >
13 > and then what ? if you're proposing removal of packages due solely to no
14 > maintainer, then we're going to have to slap you around. dont remove
15 > packages for that reason alone.
16 > -mike
17
18 So I guess the idea would then be, how do you find packages in the tree
19 where dev FooGuy once maintained it but no longer does (because FooGuy
20 left) and the package is old and nasty and no one cares about it. Leave
21 it in the tree anyway? I certainly don't want unmaintained CRAP in the
22 tree, although unmaintained decent programs are good. By decent I mean
23 programs that are generally so old they never have version bumps ;)
24
25 - -Alec
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Re: [gentoo-dev] metadata revised - removal of packages Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>