Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Qt3 mask breaks significant science packages

2010-03-13 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 03/13/2010 12:34 PM, Matti Bickel wrote: > Samuli Suominen wrote: >> if a package is broken, and been in treecleaners queue for too long, and >> it would be a semi-trivial fix, it simply doesn't get done without manpower > > Because i can't find this info on the treecleaner project page: is the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Qt3 mask breaks significant science packages

2010-03-13 Thread Doktor Notor
On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:34:22 +0100 Matti Bickel wrote: > I have found 4 bugs assigned to treeclea...@gentoo.org, but i'm sure i > missed something. > If you have time to spare, bugs assigned to maintainer-needed@ and often rotting in bugzilla for ages despite having patches included will give y

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Qt3 mask breaks significant science packages

2010-03-13 Thread Matti Bickel
Samuli Suominen wrote: > if a package is broken, and been in treecleaners queue for too long, and > it would be a semi-trivial fix, it simply doesn't get done without manpower Because i can't find this info on the treecleaner project page: is there a bugzilla query for the "treecleaners queue", so

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Qt3 mask breaks significant science packages

2010-03-13 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 03/13/2010 01:07 AM, Ryan Hill wrote: > On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:33:12 +0100 > Ben de Groot wrote: > >> On 12 March 2010 16:59, Alexis Ballier wrote: >>> Or like the old gtk-1: completely abandon the package and let the >>> consumers upgrade slowly. IMHO this is the less annoying approach for >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Qt3 mask breaks significant science packages

2010-03-12 Thread Ben de Groot
On 13 March 2010 00:07, Ryan Hill wrote: > On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:33:12 +0100 > Ben de Groot wrote: >> Abandoned packages do not belong in the portage tree. That's >> why we have a treecleaners project. > > The treecleaners project is tasked with keeping these packages working, and > removing the

[gentoo-dev] Re: Qt3 mask breaks significant science packages

2010-03-12 Thread Ryan Hill
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:33:12 +0100 Ben de Groot wrote: > On 12 March 2010 16:59, Alexis Ballier wrote: > > Or like the old gtk-1: completely abandon the package and let the > > consumers upgrade slowly. IMHO this is the less annoying approach for > > everyone. > > Abandoned packages do not belo