On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 02:18:52 -0700 David Shakaryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
| I have created a small script to go through entries in package.mask
| and list those which are masking non-existent packages or versions. I
| then used this list to clean up package.mask. I tried to only remove
| versions that were removed and have a newer version in place, along
| with packages that were removed, but I accidentally /might/ have
| removed other entries, although I doubt it. I kept masks for future
| versions in place, as the maintainer of the package might have wanted
| to mask it ahead of time.

So what happens when users have an old, masked package installed that's
no longer masked thanks to this change?

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Ciaran McCreesh
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