On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 2:42 AM, Eric Bélanger <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Allan McRae <[email protected]> wrote: >> Eric Bélanger wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Aaron Griffin <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Eric Bélanger <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Phil Dillon-Thiselton >>>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> 2009/3/12 Phil Dillon-Thiselton <[email protected]>: >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> 2009/3/6 Eric Bélanger <[email protected]>: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> checklist : >>>>>>>> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Snowman/License_Rebuild_Checklist >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I believe I haven't forgotten anything. Some of these are trivial, >>>>>>>> some might need more detailed explanation... >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Sorry, I have only just seen this. Are we still doing it in a >>>>>>> co-ordinated fashion or has everyone just got in with it and I have >>>>>>> missed the boat? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> If this hasn't been started already then let's just go for it. I'm >>>>>> desperate to get into something! >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> It hasn't been started yet. I am waiting for Aaron to push live the >>>>> latest git changes. They'll fix the sourceball.{skip, force} >>>>> grepping. They'll also make the failed.txt and errors.txt useful for >>>>> creating a list of packages to fix. I'll use another way to make a >>>>> list. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Pushed live and tagged! >>>> >>>> >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> I've made a list of packages with missing licenses. I still found the >>> errors.txt too cluttered (list packages with non-(L)GPL license and >>> for both arches) so I just used the abs tree on x86_64. Some >>> i686-only packages might be missing but I'll add them later as there's >>> plenty to do for now. The list : >>> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Snowman/License_Rebuild_TODO >>> >>> Just add your name beside the packages you plan to do. Better take a >>> dozen or so at a time. Once they're done, remove them from the list. >>> If they cause problems (soname bump, doesn't build/work, etc), skip >>> them and replace your name with a note explaning the problem. You can >>> try to find a patch or a fix but don't spend too much time on that. >>> Better focus on the easy ones for now. We'll deal with the problematic >>> ones later. >>> >> >> >> How about we just remove all the fortune-mod-<foo> packages instead of >> rebuilding them... They are all orphans and with low (>5%) usage. >> >> Allan >> > > We could do that. Any objections? >
Maybe, before starting the rebuilds, we should first go through the list and see if there are not other orphaned packages that could be moved to unsupported. I'll see if I can quickly seperate the orphans from this list.
