11.11.2013 13:32, Manuel Rüger wrote: > Hi, > > I recently noticed it twice, that it seems to be common practice to > remove a package without using the methods described in [1], but just > dropping it from cvs. > > From my observations packages removed without last-rites could be > characterized by this: > > - it was a dependency of another package > - this package dropped / incorporated the dependency > - no other packages depend on it > - there are possible forks or updates, but maintainer doesn't care^W^W > has no interest
+1, this should be documented IMO. I last-rite games-strategy/seven-kingdoms-data recently without sending notice, cause last versions of games-strategy/seven-kingdoms includes all of it's data. > This might work for the main tree, but it won't for overlays, that might > also depend on these packages (because they have a patched / older > version of your maintained package). We are trying not to break overlays, but we also can not guarantee full support for them. -- Best regards, Sergey Popov Gentoo developer Gentoo Desktop Effects project lead Gentoo Qt project lead Gentoo Proxy maintainers project lead
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