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From: Fosco <fosco@××××.it>
To: gentoo-science@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-science] sci-geosciences/grass unavailable
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2020 13:02:17
Message-Id: 618ec4cf-d312-651c-9be8-1b03f915ea32@tana.it
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-science] sci-geosciences/grass unavailable by Aisha Tammy
1 My fault,
2
3 I bet it were in science.
4
5 Your git suggestion led me to
6
7 https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=1e2193bbca8eaaab8cca1b4e61294b59f6a62714
8 "sci-geosciences/grass: Remove last-rited pkg"
9
10 I'll ask if it is a version bumb strategy or Grass Gis (grass.osgeo.org)
11 is going to be out of tree.
12
13 Thank you,
14
15 Fosco
16
17 On 04/10/20 02:34, Aisha Tammy wrote:
18 > On 10/3/20 5:31 PM, Fosco wrote:
19 >> I found the homonym package, but they relate to different areas (genetic
20 >> and geography).
21 >>
22 >> sci-geosciences/grass had an update at least few months ago (my last
23 >> check is "late spring"). I remember the ebuild was a couple of minor
24 >> version behind the master release.
25 >>
26 >> My believe is that there were no scheduled removal for that package.
27 >>
28 >>
29 > I found a log from 2010
30 >
31 > commit be508b7888b1d5e4bed1ec07efd9a544a8142b9d
32 > Author: Christian Schmitt <chris@××××××××××.de>
33 > Date: Mon Jun 14 13:45:37 2010 +0200
34 >
35 > [sci-geosciences/grass] remove the grass version. better one available in portage now
36 >
37 > So it seems like it has not been in science for a *really* long time.
38 >
39 > Aisha
40 >
41 >
42 >> Possible tree corruption?
43 >>
44 >> Fosco
45 >>
46 >> On 03/10/20 21:17, Aisha Tammy wrote:
47 >>> On 10/3/20 2:58 PM, Aisha Tammy wrote:
48 >>>> On 10/3/20 2:50 PM, Fosco wrote:
49 >>>>> Hi all.
50 >>>>>
51 >>>>> I recently synced and found that sci-geosciences/grass has no available
52 >>>>> ebuilds.
53 >>>>>
54 >>>>> I checked on https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/sci-geosciences/grass
55 >>>>> and the server returns 404.
56 >>>>>
57 >>>>> I checked with no luck for a move on https://gpo.zugaina.org/  .
58 >>>>>
59 >>>>> I didn't notice a "under removal" flag on Grass Gis recently.
60 >>>>>
61 >>>>> Am I missing something?
62 >>>>>
63 >>>>> Thank you
64 >>> My apologies, seems I misremembered grass as pydap (which I removed)
65 >>>
66 >>> We still have a package sci-biology/grass present in the tree.
67 >>> Perhaps this is the one that you meant?
68 >>>
69 >>> Aisha
70 >>>
71 >>>> Yes, grass was removed as it had not been updated in over 3 years.
72 >>>> We are currently short of personnel to keep sci clean and update, so
73 >>>> we removed the package.
74 >>>>
75 >>>> If you are interested in having grass present, we would love to get
76 >>>> it back with a maintainer, even better if it has been updated upstream.
77 >>>>
78 >>>> Best,
79 >>>> Aisha
80 >>>>
81 >