-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/02/2013 01:49 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > On Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 02:05:50PM +0100, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: >> Dne So 2. února 2013 12:44:30, Vaeth napsal(a): >>> >>> When I came to Gentoo many years ago, this was a very rare problem, >>> but the removal of packages has tremendously increased, and it is >>> not only me who is observing this problem - there were already some >>> threads in the forums, and people planning to but not coming back >>> to Gentoo for this reason. >> >> Awesome so they could've get involved and maintain it themselves if they >> seen >> it so crushial for their lives. > > Agreed. That's why there are last rights announcements with a 30 day > delay before the package is actually removed. That is also why we allow > people to proxy-maintain packages. > > In a nutshell, the people complaining about removals should stop > complaining and start volunteering to maintain either the packages, or > set up some place on github or some other service and maintain the > software so we can package it.
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