Enrico Weigelt wrote: > * Petteri R?ty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: >> dev-java/saxon-bin is going to be removed from the tree as soon as the >> from sources version dev-java/saxon gets marked stable on arches that >> have saxon-bin stable. I will add a package move and a revision bump so >> that user will have a smooth upgrade. I will also adjust app-text/jing >> to work with the from sources version. > > Are such things also announced separately on some user list ? > The problem I see: from the view of an common user (who's not > reading the dev lists) packages they're using suddenly disappear. > They don't have time to handle it properly. > > There should be an additional flagging (ie. scheduled for masking > or removal), maybe such flags could be put into an separate > database (ie. some textfile available via web or rsync). >
Things scheduled for removal (by treecleaners, and I hope by many) enter pmask prior to removal; this is really the current system of notification. > An tool could check if the current system has some of those > scheduled packages installed. > > > cu -- [email protected] mailing list
