-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 18:45:20 +0100 Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 17:25:02 +0000 > Roy Bamford <neddyseag...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > On 2016.01.21 16:53, William Hubbs wrote: > [...] > [...] > [...] > [...] > [...] > [...] > [...] > [...] > [...] > [...] > [...] > [...] > [...] > [...] > [...] > [...] > [...] > [...] > [...] > [...] > [...] > > > > There is no point in removing unmaintained but perfectly functional > > software from the tree. It needs to be both unmaintained and > > broken. Broken being evidenced by at least one open bug. > > That's nonsense. In fact, that's exactly the opposite of what should > be removed. > So take the long standing President of the Board of Trustees who began gentoo likely when you were still in school, peruse, and without hesitation, with the opening line, declare the cited benchmark of evidence as nonsense. Sighs, and groans. > If I see a package that clearly doesn't build or otherwise simply > doesn't work, could not have worked for past 3 years, are you forcing > me to waste a time reporting a bug to no maintainer who could fix it? > Surely no. > Because to me, the lack of any open bugs is a clear evidence that > the package is not only unmaintained, but also unused. > > This is the way it really is, obviously. Well, to be fair; "Because to me", so not quite. But I can't help being of the impression that because you think so, it must in fact BE. Happily, master Neddy being as capable as he is with management of such expression, has already retorted to the description of his conclusion as nonsense as, well, nonsense. - -- kind regards Ian Delaney -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.1 iQJ8BAEBCgBmBQJWpJ6rXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXRCRUI4RjAxNzRGRTVDMjI4RjcxNkRFNzIw QzQzN0NCNDcxRTlEMzNBAAoJEAxDfLRx6dM68qIQAMaiuJwwU9hUtJwfO5AwjGHM Yukp7mib/MAHUCHExfNTrGQ/rlgOmzgG1gmx75Ruh6utia4xz3Xlcp4VkVWcyZER StuRAXCuL874aUW4iSRL0fSAXK38L7AfvHs+3RVzV9Dr1DhPIUdIwwdmbLE25AEY BSDcRDPSnkmDn9+ifuO/s+/lH7quQRugkS6LPDxB37Vnbi6yudrUpNB8x+B4IRb9 F9hgB0GXOhAAR8z1z2avf5f5yzKXp93tDwfxfl2uOMs3iUm3wedpaMyC+6YBkmsc Flwu9gYfUVM957t5u84jUId4ckjyBYltZmCtzWoA6oQx0umPUkB4Q8R+p4azsTST Vmr/9se0Em+QHXFDbTzQLiMuotKO6yRFhpQn2T8F46SEqI7OA+wrVmKmZXfdg2OH CVV29X85uomLRGw0NrCwnKCQaKRUiFDwadjclfOBPy31LBMaNUoKsHdImjUgy1fA r29oZsCVK16Io7fh9lWE2F6Q5uIsANaCNeGp+HqOd13xEvqSwW+NPRTxSD17uw4m akdA1oTNiQoYfR6BUz14GXFc0oXH9zrO2TLZpRqnhjOIb8TGeaDyEuKfG95TD3mq vSyPsNaaTp14tiEjLRy+S+vlxkGdovdK0dFOoVouFFFpz7sP38ngWOCdO92OoEeR C7g32EiMSIoJrJe4VLOE =wTau -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
