On Sun, 2 Apr 2006 22:20:49 +0200 Carsten Lohrke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Sunday 02 April 2006 21:31, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > The usual period is thirty days. | | Grep this mailing list, most often a one week period was used.
This is a recent change, and usually someone replies with "why not a month?". | > Once it's in p.mask it's effectively gone, to the extent that | > ignoring it for a month is fine. | | Who said a package gets masked before it gets removed? There is no | such requirement in the ebuild policy. It's not a requirement. It's a courtesy to your users and fellow developers, at least some of whom would very much appreciate it if you left things for ~four weeks rather than ~one. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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