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. William
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