Doug Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Thilo Bangert wrote:
> > All packages with <herd>maintainer-needed</herd> will be moved to
> > <herd>no-herd</herd>.
>
> maintainer-needed is different from no-herd. no-herd is valid when a
> dev is maintaining a pkg outside of a herd. no-herd is not valid for
> when the package is entirely unmaintained, maintainer-needed would be a
> better tag for it. I would not make that change.

if that were so, we would need to document it.
from my reading of the current policies[1,2,3] <herd> is required and 
either no-herd or in herds.xml, no-herd only being allowed if no herd 
fits.

>
> I tried to fix up your list and 

thanks

> found a handful of the packages not 
> even in existence in the tree. Can you re-run this with a fully up to
> date tree?

funny - so why would cvs up not be enough? which packages? i was able to 
find all packages on packages.gentoo.org

thanks

[1]http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/misc-files/metadata/index.html
[2]http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/metastructure/herds/index.xml
[3]http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=4

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