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Hi, |
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Since some people were looking for a ways to help Treecleaners |
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in the past, I'd like to suggest an easy talk that could help us a bit. |
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There is a large number of maintainer-needed packages that are probably |
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broken, and it would be helpful to do some filtering there. |
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Basically: |
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1. Go through the list of m-needed packages not slated for cleaning: |
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https://bit.ly/2HnSLQJ |
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2. Find bugs that indicate that the package does not build and/or is |
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seriously broken (i.e. useless). |
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3. If possible, verify the reports (i.e. try building yourself). |
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4. Check if the package has reverse dependencies. You can use my quick |
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ugly script to get them from command-line: |
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https://github.com/mgorny/mgorny-scripts/blob/master/rdep |
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5. If the package is definitely broken and has no revdeps (or all |
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revdeps are equally broken), CC treecleaner@ on the relevant bug. |
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6. Providing any extra useful info would be also welcome (i.e. whether |
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Gentoo version is outdated, last release upst, last commit, whether bug |
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is fixed upst, etc.) |
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TIA! |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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