On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 1:33 PM, Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 22 Jan 2016 12:04, Alexis Ballier wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 18:45:20 +0100 Michał Górny wrote: > > > If I see a package that clearly doesn't build or otherwise simply > > > doesn't work, could not have worked for past 3 years, are you forcing > > > me to waste a time reporting a bug to no maintainer who could fix it? > > > > sure, don't waste your time and just delete it so that nobody can track > > why it was removed or even attempt to fix it. > > > > > Because to me, the lack of any open bugs is a clear evidence that > > > the package is not only unmaintained, but also unused. > > > > lack of open bug means there is no known bug; anything else is pure > > supposition > > this. if anything, it sounds like i need to keep open a trivial bug > for a package to keep people from wrongly proactively tree cleaning. > > the # of users of a package is irrelevant. if there are (real i.e. not > "typo in message" bugs) open, then that's a diff story. > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Treecleaner/Policy I tried to write the policy as clearly as possible, feel free to request modifications. -A > -mike >
