On Mon, 11 Nov 2013 10:32:55 +0100 Manuel Rüger <mr...@gentoo.org> 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 > > 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). > > Please stop killing user experience or document this "feature" in [1]. > > Best regards, > > Manuel > > [1] http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/ebuild-maintenance/index.html I wasn't aware last-riting had become general policy. It was originally started by the treecleaner team to give people time to object to maintainer-needed removals, and others thought it was a good idea, but it was always up to the discretion of the maintainer back then. I'm not one of the offenders, just pointing out maybe some people missed the policy change as I did. -- Ryan Hill psn: dirtyepic_sk gcc-porting/toolchain/wxwidgets @ gentoo.org 47C3 6D62 4864 0E49 8E9E 7F92 ED38 BD49 957A 8463
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