On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 18:42:19 Jauhien Piatlicki wrote: > Hi, > > I would ask an opinion about what to do with packages that have invalid > SRC_URI (pointing to non-existent sources) and severe compilation problems. > > I'm trying to fix ebuilds that lead to `repoman full` failures now, so > we will be able to have automatic repoman checks for pull requests. Some > ebuilds are really outdated and quite hard to fix (e.g. I tried to do > version bump for sci-physics/bigdft, but I failed as new version does > not compile and error is in fortran code, that I do not understand). > > So what to do with such outdated not working stuff? As nobody makes > issues/bugs about it, I think, we can just remove unmaintained broken > packages from the overlay. >
I guess if someone is using it they will complain. Then it can be their job to fix it :) Francois
