On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 8:39 PM, <sch...@subverted.org> wrote: > Why was a valid package removed for an errant comment in the ebuild? > It's not dead upstream, and someone (me) took the time to actually look > at it and note that the issue was at least mostly addressed, except for > the comment.
I'm pretty sure the practices used by that ebuild are totally inappropriate in gentoo-x86 (if they had used USE flags perhaps....) Packages that have no active maintainer are removed by the treecleaners all the time. The entire point of treecleaners is to either fix or remove dead packages from the tree. > > Then again, what's one more in my overlay of 54 packages, most of which > have had valid fixes posted for months, if not years? We don't have the staff to do one-off-fixes for all these packages. They sit in maintainer-needed for months or years (as you stated above.) It becomes painfully obvious that they are not used enough to be maintained to gentoo-x86 standards which is why they get removed. I'd love to be able to say that treecleaners should never remove anything from the tree and should patch everything. However the team is small and there are hundreds of unmaintained packages in the tree so the team opts to remove packages that look too screwed up to keep. As you have noted users are encouraged to keep said packages in a personal overlay or sunrise[1]. [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/treecleaners/index.xml#doc_chap7 > > > --dc > > ----- Forwarded message from bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org ----- > > Subject: [Bug 150091] app-forensics/samhain ebuild issues > Reply-To: DO NOT REPLY <devn...@localhost.invalid> > To: sch...@subverted.org > From: bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org > Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 20:04:25 +0000 (UTC) > > DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL. Also, do not reply via email to the person > whose email is mentioned below. To comment on this bug, please visit: > > Clear-Text: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150091 > Secure: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150091 > > > darks...@gentoo.org changed: > > What |Removed |Added > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Status|NEW |RESOLVED > Keywords|PMASKED | > Resolution| |FIXED > Status Whiteboard|Pending removal 22. 5. 2010 |Pending removal: 2010-05-22 > > > > > ------- Comment #6 from darks...@gentoo.org 2010-06-12 20:04 0000 ------- > removed from tree > > -- > Configure bugmail: https://bugs.gentoo.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email > ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- > You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > >
