> >  > I had thought that we had more upstream makefiles than we do.  But as I
 > >  > mentioned earlier, the only ones I know of are tcpd and grub.  So I can
 > >  > see arguing for a precedent that upstream makefiles must be removed.  In
 > >  > that case, we really need to write this down, so that all projects are
 > >  > held to the same standard.
 > > 
 > > Agreed.  AFAIK, the unreferenced file policy in general is not written
 > > down (other than the original heads-up I sent out back in 2001), but
 > > rather has been passed down from one gatekeeping team to the next.  Both a
 > > manpage for findunref and a written policy are overdue.  I'd be happy to
 > > work with the gatestaff (or whoever else needs to be involved) on this as
 > > a background task.
 > 
 > Do you have something like a draft yet ?

Long overdue, but I just integrated the manpage.  The written policy for
the ON gate is another matter but in essence can be summarized as "all
files must be referenced or fall into one of the existing exception
categories in the ON exception_list files".

--
meem
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