Re: [gentoo-dev] Removals reply

2013-02-04 Thread Michael Weber
On 02/03/2013 07:07 AM, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote: We the Gentoo developers strongly believe that this project is not fun and not important. veto. a) there is no we, b) there are conrary posts on this list. -- Michael Weber Gentoo Developer web: https://xmw.de/ mailto: Michael Weber

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removals reply

2013-02-04 Thread Gilles Dartiguelongue
Le lundi 04 février 2013 à 12:08 +0100, Michael Weber a écrit : On 02/03/2013 07:07 AM, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote: We the Gentoo developers strongly believe that this project is not fun and not important. veto. a) there is no we, b) there are conrary posts on this list. that doesn't mean

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removals reply

2013-02-03 Thread Vaeth
(My last public mail on the topic, I promise). Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote: If you want an automatic archive for dropped packages, MAKE ONE! You can study the problem with single-person projects at the example of the (previous) Gentoo Wiki. Without having the files on (at least some) mirrors

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removals reply

2013-02-03 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 12:07 AM, Vaeth va...@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de wrote: Yep! That's the right attitude: Give the people 30 days (even those people who are currently not at Gentoo for whatever reason) to know years in advance all the software they might ever need and tell them, if in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removals reply

2013-02-02 Thread Vaeth
The ebuild is still available by CVS (or maybe git in future), but if there were already a lot of gentoo patches, the tarball with these patches is lost forever. If even upstream is dead, not even the main tarball will be available anymore. Oh but it can mostly these archaic packages do not

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removals reply

2013-02-02 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 6:44 AM, Vaeth va...@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de wrote: I just ask that Gentoo should not *hinder* the user in installing/ maintaining a package later by removing the tarballs (and possibly patches) which once were available. So, I can see the validity of this argument

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removals reply

2013-02-02 Thread Tomáš Chvátal
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

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removals reply

2013-02-02 Thread William Hubbs
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 -

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removals reply

2013-02-02 Thread Rick Zero_Chaos Farina
-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

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removals reply - please write adequate log messages!

2013-02-02 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
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

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removals reply

2013-02-02 Thread Vaeth
Sorry, but I feel that I must explain once more: 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

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removals reply

2013-02-02 Thread Alexandre Rostovtsev
On Sun, 2013-02-03 at 06:07 +0100, Vaeth wrote: So this 30 day delay will enable these people to get involved, especially for all the packages which were removed in the last years? Now it is apparent that an archive for dropped packages (in the form of keeping masked packages or some other

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removals reply

2013-02-02 Thread Alec Warner
On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Vaeth va...@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de wrote: Sorry, but I feel that I must explain once more: 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

[gentoo-dev] Removals reply (I am not going to figure out which tread of those all should i reply to)

2013-02-01 Thread Tomáš Chvátal
Hello guys, 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

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removals reply (I am not going to figure out which tread of those all should i reply to)

2013-02-01 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 8:53 AM, Tomáš Chvátal tomas.chva...@gmail.com wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removals reply

2013-02-01 Thread Vaeth
If security bugs occur then there's two options -- fix, or remove. (Or maybe mask with message clearly indicating security issues or warn about possibly unknown security issues). I agree. But security bugs are really relevant only for a rather limited types of packages: Those which are SUID

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removals reply (I am not going to figure out which tread of those all should i reply to)

2013-02-01 Thread Tomáš Chvátal
2013/2/1 Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org: On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 8:53 AM, Tomáš Chvátal tomas.chva...@gmail.com wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removals reply (I am not going to figure out which tread of those all should i reply to)

2013-02-01 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 01/02/2013 18:00, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: No, they won't get anyone looking over their shoulder unless they decide to neglect the bugs as few maintainers did. I didn't see a lot forced removals caused by qa, did you? As far as I can tell, they come down to two: - webmin; which was saved

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removals reply

2013-02-01 Thread Vaeth
[...] and if anyone wants to start where we left he can pick out the ebuild from attic and put into his own overlay where it might work for him or even put it back to tree fixed. And this is exactly what *cannot* be done after a while: The ebuild is still available by CVS (or maybe git in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removals reply

2013-02-01 Thread Tomáš Chvátal
Dne Pá 1. února 2013 18:40:32, Vaeth napsal(a): [...] and if anyone wants to start where we left he can pick out the ebuild from attic and put into his own overlay where it might work for him or even put it back to tree fixed. And this is exactly what *cannot* be done after a while: