On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 06:17:04 +0000 (UTC)
Duncan <[email protected]> wrote:

> Peter Alfredsen <[email protected]> posted
> [email protected], excerpted below, on  Sun, 15 Feb
> 2009 21:29:07 +0100:
> 
> > +# Peter Alfredsen <[email protected]> (15 Feb 2009) 
> > +# Masking for removal in 30 days.
> > +# Fails to build with gcc-4.3, bug 250712
> > +media-video/gephex
> > +
> 
> Shouldn't there be a bit more to it than that, something about it
> being maintainer-needed, or maintainer unwilling to work on it
> further, or upstream dead, or some combination of the above?  Just
> because it doesn't compile with the latest GCC isn't normally
> considered reason in itself to remove a package.
> 
> Also note that there's a "new" (April, 2007) version 0.4.4, on the
> site, that may work better with newer gcc than the 2005 version 0.4.3
> that's the latest in our tree.  So maybe it well could be
> maintainer-needed, but that should be in the masking for removal
> reason, if so, and ideally, listed in the last rites announcement
> here, in case anyone's interested in taking a look at it.
> 
> That said, I don't have any particular interest in it, so I don't
> have a problem with it disappearing.  I just found the ONLY reason
> given an uncommon enough reason for removal on its own that it
> warranted comment, is all.

read the bug.


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