Am Freitag, 1. Februar 2013, 14:53:19 schrieb Tomáš Chvátal:
> just to be sure here "Removals are completely up to the maintainer to
> decide", with expection of QA removal where the package must be
> already broken to get punted.
> 
> If you as developers and users find some package useful you can retake
> the maintainership (or became proxy-maint) which also expects you to
> take care of the bugs (QA can prune it even if you take the
> maintainership but ignore failures [even if your personal feeling is
> that it is corner case, it is for QA to deicde]).

I agree 100% that we should not accumulate cruft in the tree and that removals 
are necessary. Please however, 

*** write meaningful log or mask messages *** !!!

"Old and uses IMake" is not really a reason for treecleaning. "Fortify crash 
on start and unuseable on fast machines" definitely is.

Cheers, A

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Andreas K. Huettel
Gentoo Linux developer 
dilfri...@gentoo.org
http://www.akhuettel.de/

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