On 02/01/2013 02:36 AM, Vaeth wrote: > >>> # Upstream is dead and gone. >>> # Masked for removal on 20130302 >> >> Erm, so this is the _only_ reason - dead upstream? > > ++ > > Please, please, stop removing packages for no reason! > This happens now way too often: > > app-dicts/ispell* > app-portage/epm > app-text/ispell > games-arcade/bitefusion > games-arcade/xboing > games-action/trackballs > games-emulation/xmame > ... > > These are just some of the previous examples which I remember > because I had to put them in my local overlay. > > None of these removals alone was so valuable to me that I saw > a reason to step up, but the removals for no reasons accumulate > previously so much that I see the need to say something: > > You are destroying the charme of gentoo by systematically > removing all these little tools and toys. The availability > of a lot of software was once a strength of gentoo, so removing > these things is really bad, especially if it happens for no > real reason. > > I was understanding if e.g. someting was removed which needs > the <gtk-2 or <qt-4 framework or something similar and had > a dead upstream. But just needing a small tool like imake (xboing) > or having open feature requestes (epm) or even nothing and > just dead upstream is IMHO really not a reason. > > If something really does not compile anymore and nobody cares, > then remove keywords (or, for god's sake, mask it); > if something might theoretically become a security issue (xpdf) > then it should be masked. > > But please do not throw things out of the tree unless > really necessary: > > It does not hurt anybody to have such package in the tree, > but removing it - especially if upstream is dead - means > that the tarbalös will be removed from the mirrors and thus > nobody is able anymore to install it (even if he would care and > fix some minor issues) unless he had kept a copy on > his local machine (which will mean in the future that he can only > do it if he had used gentoo already many years ago and cared > during the time of the removal). > > (If the resources are an argument: I am not speaking about monster > packages taking gigabytes of data - these might need to be > discussed separately - but mainly about reasonably sized packages > which even if summed up do not take much data). > > Regards > Martin
I suspect that the removal message is inaccurate. The actual reason for removal is the following: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425298 If you were to make a webpage for it and host the tarball for people, it should be possible to resolve that bug. That should be sufficient to have the removal mask removed. I suspect that the Anapnea network will be more than happy to provide you with hosting for this: http://www.anapnea.net/
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