On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 18:23 +0100, Jakub Moc wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh napsal(a): > > On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:57:37 -0500 Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > | I picked a random e-mail to reply to. I don't maintain that many > > | packages (maybe 10 or so?). But if I have a bug (particularly a sec > > | bug as in this case) and you haven't stablized it after five months > > | then I'll probably just nuke the ebuild and drop your keywords > > > > Which is dumb. There's no harm to be had in just leaving the ebuild > > there. > > Accumulating broken old vulnerable and unsupported junk in tree for the > sole sake of arches that noone cares about enough to keyword something > newer for months harms everyone who uses rsync, wastes disk space for > users, wastes disk space on mirrors, makes CVS and portage slower, > wastes maintainers time... No harm? Nonsense. > > Well, there's a bit more to it than "noone cares about". Biggest problem I have seen (although seldom) is when the "fixed" version is broken for us. In such cases, we will note the problem on the bug, but obviously will not keyword the "fixed" version, and we need the old version until the package maintainer corrects the problem. Thus, we have no control over any 5 month, 6 month, forever rule.
Regards, Ferris -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc)
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