Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Qt3 mask breaks significant science packages
On 03/13/2010 01:07 AM, Ryan Hill wrote: On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:33:12 +0100 Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: On 12 March 2010 16:59, Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org wrote: Or like the old gtk-1: completely abandon the package and let the consumers upgrade slowly. IMHO this is the less annoying approach for everyone. Abandoned packages do not belong in the portage tree. That's why we have a treecleaners project. The treecleaners project is tasked with keeping these packages working, and removing them only if there is no other alternative. That's the ideal situation, unfortunately treecleaners is currently so understaffed it's not necessarily always true if a package is broken, and been in treecleaners queue for too long, and it would be a semi-trivial fix, it simply doesn't get done without manpower So devs: Please join treecleaners project :)
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Qt3 mask breaks significant science packages
Samuli Suominen wrote: if a package is broken, and been in treecleaners queue for too long, and it would be a semi-trivial fix, it simply doesn't get done without manpower Because i can't find this info on the treecleaner project page: is there a bugzilla query for the treecleaners queue, so others can take a look/help out? I have found 4 bugs assigned to treeclea...@gentoo.org, but i'm sure i missed something. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Qt3 mask breaks significant science packages
On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:34:22 +0100 Matti Bickel m...@gentoo.org wrote: I have found 4 bugs assigned to treeclea...@gentoo.org, but i'm sure i missed something. If you have time to spare, bugs assigned to maintainer-needed@ and often rotting in bugzilla for ages despite having patches included will give you lots of stuff to play with for starters:) Perhaps the treecleaners alias should watch the m-needed@ bugs, dunno. :) signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Qt3 mask breaks significant science packages
On 03/13/2010 12:34 PM, Matti Bickel wrote: Samuli Suominen wrote: if a package is broken, and been in treecleaners queue for too long, and it would be a semi-trivial fix, it simply doesn't get done without manpower Because i can't find this info on the treecleaner project page: is there a bugzilla query for the treecleaners queue, so others can take a look/help out? I have found 4 bugs assigned to treeclea...@gentoo.org, but i'm sure i missed something. Look also for bugs where treecleaner@ is in CC list. 19 bugs currently, so not that bad at the moment but even some of these could be saved.
[gentoo-dev] Re: Qt3 mask breaks significant science packages
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:33:12 +0100 Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: On 12 March 2010 16:59, Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org wrote: Or like the old gtk-1: completely abandon the package and let the consumers upgrade slowly. IMHO this is the less annoying approach for everyone. Abandoned packages do not belong in the portage tree. That's why we have a treecleaners project. The treecleaners project is tasked with keeping these packages working, and removing them only if there is no other alternative. -- fonts,by design, by neglect gcc-porting, for a fact or just for effect wxwidgets @ gentoo EFFD 380E 047A 4B51 D2BD C64F 8AA8 8346 F9A4 0662 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Qt3 mask breaks significant science packages
On 13 March 2010 00:07, Ryan Hill dirtye...@gentoo.org wrote: On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:33:12 +0100 Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: Abandoned packages do not belong in the portage tree. That's why we have a treecleaners project. The treecleaners project is tasked with keeping these packages working, and removing them only if there is no other alternative. No, treecleaners is tasked with either finding a maintainer for those packages, or removing them from the tree. Cheers, -- Ben de Groot Gentoo Linux developer (qt, media, lxde, desktop-misc) __
