Re: [gentoo-science] sci-geosciences/grass unavailable

[Aisha Tammy]

On 10/3/20 5:31 PM, Fosco wrote:
> I found the homonym package, but they relate to different areas (genetic
> and geography).
>
> sci-geosciences/grass had an update at least few months ago (my last
> check is "late spring"). I remember the ebuild was a couple of minor
> version behind the master release.
>
> My believe is that there were no scheduled removal for that package.
>
>

I found a log from 2010

commit be508b7888b1d5e4bed1ec07efd9a544a8142b9d
Author: Christian Schmitt <chris@××××××××××.de>
Date:   Mon Jun 14 13:45:37 2010 +0200

    [sci-geosciences/grass] remove the grass version. better one available in portage now

So it seems like it has not been in science for a *really* long time.

Aisha


> Possible tree corruption?
>
> Fosco
>
> On 03/10/20 21:17, Aisha Tammy wrote:
>> On 10/3/20 2:58 PM, Aisha Tammy wrote:
>>> On 10/3/20 2:50 PM, Fosco wrote:
>>>> Hi all.
>>>>
>>>> I recently synced and found that sci-geosciences/grass has no available
>>>> ebuilds.
>>>>
>>>> I checked on https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/sci-geosciences/grass
>>>> and the server returns 404.
>>>>
>>>> I checked with no luck for a move on https://gpo.zugaina.org/  .
>>>>
>>>> I didn't notice a "under removal" flag on Grass Gis recently.
>>>>
>>>> Am I missing something?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you
>> My apologies, seems I misremembered grass as pydap (which I removed)
>>
>> We still have a package sci-biology/grass  present in the tree.
>> Perhaps this is the one that you meant?
>>
>> Aisha
>>
>>> Yes, grass was removed as it had not been updated in over 3 years.
>>> We are currently short of personnel to keep sci clean and update, so
>>> we removed the package.
>>>
>>> If you are interested in having grass present, we would love to get
>>> it back with a maintainer, even better if it has been updated upstream.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Aisha
>>>
>>
>