On 13 December 2012 19:28, Pacho Ramos <pa...@gentoo.org> wrote: > El jue, 13-12-2012 a las 13:10 -0600, William Hubbs escribió: >> I think another good reason for treecleaning a package is if upstream for >> the package stops supporting their package and recommends that you use >> a new package. In this situation, once the new package hits stable, >> there is really not a reason to keep the old package around. Instead, >> any necessary transition to the new package should be done and the old >> package should be treecleaned. >> >> William >> > > I think we already try to do that... the problem is that sometimes some > packages are forgotten :S
We also have 720 packages listed as maintainer-needed[1] meaning nobody is actually taking care of them. And this number is pretty scary. [1]http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/treecleaners/maintainer-needed.xml -- Regards, Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2
