I'm starting a new thread so this will be a completely separate discussion.
On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 05:56:04PM +0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote: > On Fri, 8 Jul 2016 10:42:14 -0400 Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Anthony G. Basile <bluen...@gentoo.org> > > wrote: > > > > > > Also there's some debate in IRC about whether or not these packages > > > should be lastrited or dropped to maintainer-needed. These forks are > > > not in good shape upstream, so I think it makes better sense to > > > p.mask/lastrite and then move them to the graveyard overlay when I > > > remove them from the tree in 30 days. > > > > > > > IMO the criteria should be whether they work or not. Not whether > > upstream is more or less active. > > > > If they're blockers on other work, by all means cull them. However, > > if the biggest problem with them is that they're using a few inodes in > > the repo, then they should probably stay. > > +1 > > Best regards, > Andrew Savchenko There is also an overlay for packages that are removed from the official tree [1], and imo that is where old software should go if it doesn't have an active maintainer. I don't know why we haven't been using this, but using it more than we have makes a lot of sense. William [1] https://github.com/gentoo/graveyard
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