Re: [gentoo-dev] net-fs/netatalk is facing removal

2010-01-12 Thread Doug Goldstein
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: since noone seems to care about this package, and it's blocking glibc stabilization it will be removed from tree wrt bug 300218 last chance thanks, Samuli Its been saved. -- Doug Goldstein

Re: [gentoo-dev] adding a modification timestamp to the installed pkgs database (vdb)

2010-01-12 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:35:51 -0700 Denis Dupeyron calc...@gentoo.org wrote: I'm a bit surprised by the low amount of discussions this topic has generated. There's no discussion because Brian refuses to address any comments on the proposal and just says we should do it anyway, and if you want it

Re: [gentoo-dev] PYTHON_DEPEND - Suggested replacement for NEED_PYTHON

2010-01-12 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2010-01-11 12:04:05 Gilles Dartiguelongue napisał(a): It looks like what you really want is a ranged dependencies. Dependencies specified in PYTHON_DEPEND can be expanded into ranged dependencies in EAPIs, which support ranged dependencies. -- Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis

Re: [gentoo-dev] PYTHON_DEPEND - Suggested replacement for NEED_PYTHON

2010-01-12 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2010-01-11 11:14:11 Maciej Mrozowski napisał(a): On Monday 11 of January 2010 01:25:45 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: 2010-01-10 21:56:01 Fabian Groffen napisał(a): On 10-01-2010 09:29:28 +0100, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: I would like to suggest introduction

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: PYTHON_DEPEND - Suggested replacement for NEED_PYTHON

2010-01-12 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2010-01-11 11:14:40 Fabian Groffen napisał(a): On 11-01-2010 08:29:32 +, Duncan wrote: Fabian Groffen posted on Mon, 11 Jan 2010 08:50:30 +0100 as excerpted: On 11-01-2010 01:25:45 +0100, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: Can you explain the intended use of this variable,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-nntp/inn

2010-01-12 Thread Markos Chandras
On Tuesday 12 January 2010 04:22:05 Jeroen Roovers wrote: On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:02:14 +0100 Jeroen Roovers j...@gentoo.org wrote: I'm working on getting 2.5.1 in the tree (and fixing a USE=python and some other issues while I'm at it). net-nntp/inn-2.5.1 is in the tree and fixes many

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-nntp/inn

2010-01-12 Thread Richard Freeman
On 01/11/2010 10:43 PM, Jeremy Olexa wrote: (A general reply, not targeted towards you, Rich) No prob - my post wasn't really directed personally at anybody. Speaking on behalf of the treecleaners: The fact is, some of us have never heard of inn and until Gentoo has some sort of popularity

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-nntp/inn

2010-01-12 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:32:06 +0200 Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: Thanks for saving this package. As Jeremy said, there is absolutely no way to measure the popularity of a package. So if it has no maintainer, and open bugs we have to mask it and announce it here. It is up to you

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-nntp/inn

2010-01-12 Thread Markos Chandras
On Tuesday 12 January 2010 20:21:59 Jeroen Roovers wrote: On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:32:06 +0200 Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: Thanks for saving this package. As Jeremy said, there is absolutely no way to measure the popularity of a package. So if it has no maintainer, and open

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-nntp/inn

2010-01-12 Thread Richard Freeman
On 01/12/2010 01:30 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: IMHO ( this is not a treecleaners@ opinion, i m just talking for my self ), announcing and masking a package is a good way to inform and wake up everybody to take care of this package if they really really want to stay on portage. I agree with the

[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-nntp/inn

2010-01-12 Thread Arnaud Launay
Le Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 08:30:26PM +0200, Markos Chandras a écrit: So if you want a package, plz take care of it :) From a user point of view, having submitted ebuilds, patches ideas and questions here and there on bugs.go, I must admit I end up putting up my contributions on my local

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-nntp/inn

2010-01-12 Thread Markos Chandras
On Tuesday 12 January 2010 21:40:37 Arnaud Launay wrote: Le Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 08:30:26PM +0200, Markos Chandras a écrit: So if you want a package, plz take care of it :) From a user point of view, having submitted ebuilds, patches ideas and questions here and there on bugs.go, I must

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: net-nntp/inn

2010-01-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 11 January 2010 20:00:40 Jeroen Roovers wrote: On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:31:08 -0500 Mike Frysinger wrote: On Monday 11 January 2010 16:05:16 Markos Chandras wrote: # Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org (11 Jan 2010) # Fails with -Wl,--as-needed # bug #182782. Removal in 30 days

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-nntp/inn

2010-01-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 11 January 2010 22:43:18 Jeremy Olexa wrote: On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:36:37 -0500, Richard Freeman wrote: On 01/11/2010 06:30 PM, Arnaud Launay wrote: As a newsmaster, I'm a bit concerned by this. Yeah, inn seems like a really high-profile package to mask for removal. It would

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-nntp/inn

2010-01-12 Thread Tomáš Chvátal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dne 12.1.2010 21:33, Mike Frysinger napsal(a): On Monday 11 January 2010 22:43:18 Jeremy Olexa wrote: On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:36:37 -0500, Richard Freeman wrote: On 01/11/2010 06:30 PM, Arnaud Launay wrote: As a newsmaster, I'm a bit concerned by

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-nntp/inn

2010-01-12 Thread Denis Dupeyron
2010/1/12 Tomáš Chvátal scarab...@gentoo.org: Dont be joking, [...] Mmmh? Take a deep breath, a long walk, a large beer, or whatever works. Because you need it. Denis.

[gentoo-dev] Re: Digest of gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org issue 763 (39032-39081)

2010-01-12 Thread Rick Sivernell
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:08:34 + (UTC) gentoo-dev+h...@lists.gentoo.org wrote: Topics (messages 39032 through 39081): [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] January 2010 meeting date 39032 - Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org [gentoo-dev] Non-free software in Gentoo 39033 -

[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-nntp/inn

2010-01-12 Thread Duncan
Ben de Groot posted on Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:35:45 +0100 as excerpted: 2010/1/12 Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org: If you feel like it, become a proxy-maintainer and poke a developer to put your ebuilds on tree. Have you ever heard of that ? :) Proxy-maintainership should be given a MUCH

[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-nntp/inn

2010-01-12 Thread Arnaud Launay
Le Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:37:19PM +, Duncan a écrit: FWIW, I feel for the treecleaners. It's a job with little thanks and lots of chance to make someone mad at you, but I'm glad /someone's/ doing it! =:^) Yeah. I'm glad each time I see old things getting deleted, abandoned software and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-nntp/inn

2010-01-12 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:51:28 +0100 Tomáš Chvátal scarab...@gentoo.org wrote: you need to fix your filter then. an open bug is not an acceptable reason for masking a package. if you're going to clean a package, you need to research actual reasons to mask punt. -mike Dont be joking,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-nntp/inn

2010-01-12 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:37:19 + (UTC) Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: So going with this idea... Isn't the treecleaner masking 30-day at present? What about extending that just a bit, to 5 weeks total, while reducing the actual masking to 4 weeks, with the extra week a wait time

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-nntp/inn

2010-01-12 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:18:59 +0100 Arnaud Launay a...@launay.org wrote: I have absolutely no idea how much work it requires, so I won't complain if TC says it's too complicated/unpratical/etc. rm -r * is easy. BTW, I have no knowledge of the concept of proxy-maintainer, I'll look at it

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] equery displays warnings about masked deps, even when those deps are deeper than --depth specification

2010-01-12 Thread Douglas Anderson
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 1:50 AM, Amit Dor-Shifer ami...@oversi.com wrote: amit0 ~ # qfile -v $(which equery) app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.4.5 (/usr/bin/equery) The newest version of gentoolkit has slightly changed the way depgraph prints output. Could you try checking with the latest unstable