12.11.2013 03:55, Dustin C. Hatch пишет: > On 11/11/2013 06:51, Tom Wijsman wrote: >> On Mon, 11 Nov 2013 10:47:30 +0100 >> Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> >>> Silent removals do us no good. > ... >> >> 1) dev-only seems to be the main cause of lost announcements, which >> isn't that worry some as most of us still receive them but it would >> be nice for them to be in dev-announce as well; > > This is actually the reason I subscribed to -dev in the first place. I > started noticing that some packages I needed/used/used to use/etc. were > being removed and I wanted to find out why. At first, I subscribed to > -announce and -dev-announce, but I found that I still wasn't being > notified.
And this is bad thing, cause IIRC devmanual says that such removals should be sent to -dev-announce. > I know overlays aren't officially supported, but the courtesy of > announcing package removals, especially libraries, would be much > appreciated. There have been times that a library I use for an internal > project, for example, was removed without notice, forcing me to look at > the CVS attic to find out why. More often than not, though, the commit > message is simply "removed" or "clean up," which is just as unhelpful. > While I have no problem copying stuff back out of the attic into a local > overlay, it would be nice to prepare for that before something breaks. > > Thank you, > -- Best regards, Sergey Popov Gentoo developer Gentoo Desktop Effects project lead Gentoo Qt project lead Gentoo Proxy maintainers project lead
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