Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Qt3 mask breaks significant science packages

2010-03-13 Thread Samuli Suominen
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

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Qt3 mask breaks significant science packages

2010-03-13 Thread Matti Bickel
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

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Qt3 mask breaks significant science packages

2010-03-13 Thread Doktor Notor
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

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Qt3 mask breaks significant science packages

2010-03-13 Thread Samuli Suominen
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

[gentoo-dev] Re: Qt3 mask breaks significant science packages

2010-03-12 Thread Ryan Hill
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.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Qt3 mask breaks significant science packages

2010-03-12 Thread Ben de Groot
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