On 16 July 2013 17:50, Ionut Biru <ib...@archlinux.org> wrote: > On 07/16/2013 02:39 PM, Gaetan Bisson wrote: >> [2013-07-16 13:12:19 +0200] Thomas Bächler: >>> However, now netcfg has been readded to community in the exact same >>> state as the package that was originally removed: >>> >>> * It does not work properly with systemd. >>> * There is no init system in our repositories that it works with. >>> * It actually re-added rc.d files to our repositories, although we had a >>> TODO list recently to explicitly remove those (and btw, they depend on >>> files that no longer exist in our repositories, like /etc/rc.d/functions >>> and /etc/rc.conf). >>> >>> I am really confused about the decision to re-add this and I am >>> seriously considering if we should talk about stricter guidelines for >>> adding packages and - in particular - the quality of our packages. >> >> I doubt guidelines would help. It should be pretty obvious to any >> responsible packager that re-adding a deprecated package violating >> recent TODO lists is a bad idea. If we really need to spell this out >> (with an exhaustive list of obvious things responsible developers should >> not do), then we have bigger problems. >> >> In this particular case, we should hear what Connor has to say and make >> sure (one way or another) that this type of problem will not happen >> again. >> > > Release the Kraken! > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OlCnPKr4Q8 > > -- > Ionuț >
FYI I have just built and pushed a rc.d free version of tomcat6 so you can cross it out of the (Kraken) list. -- Guillaume