On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 11:13 +0200, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > On Thursday 16 June 2005 10:53, Patrick Lauer wrote: > > Maybe someone with some scripting skillz could create a list of all > > "orphaned" packages? > > (no metadata.xml, no active maintainer, ...) > I've learned with first-person experience that no metadata doesn't means that > a package is orphaned... ok, but it's still a "bug" > So maybe it's better said to developers: if you maintain something *please* > add a metadata, or update it, so that who looks at bugs know who to ask to. For that we should have a list of all affected packages I think.
> > Always a drag to see packages getting dropped, but if noone maintains > > them there's not much that can be done. > Well maybe we can have a way to define "latest portage version" for removed > package (a tag on cvs?) so that someone can prepare a weekly tarball of > removed packages waiting for new maintainers or so on. you mean a repository of removed ebuilds? I don't know if that is a good idea, but it sure has some uses. But if I'm not mistaken files can be resurrected from cvs, so they are not "lost", only less accessible. Patrick -- Stand still, and let the rest of the universe move
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