On Wednesday 03 March 2010 18:29:13 Mark Loeser wrote: > Michael Sterrett <[email protected]> said: > > I've remove the mask for games-fps/openarena. > > > > The mask was done without consulting the games team. > > This is no reason to remove the mask. The games team had more than > enough time to fix the package. I'll be adding the mask back as the > package is vulnerable via multiple bundled libs and therefore shouldn't > be in the tree. You can apply the patches if you want to keep it and > remove the mask at that time. > > Thanks, This thread is yet another proof that we need to introduce a "Upcoming masking" for unmaintained packages.
Instead of first masking a package and then announce it, we can simply announce that we are gonna mask the package in 10days if there is no activity on the respective bug -- Markos Chandras (hwoarang) Gentoo Linux Developer Web: http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org
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