>>>>> On Thu, 08 Oct 2009, Petteri Räty wrote: > I was planning to ask this already but now is a good time too. Last > time we tried to remove a news item the client broke. Has the client > since been fixed and in stable long enough to presume that most > users have upgraded?
The news module in eselect-1.2.3 (which is being stabilised and is also included in the 10.0 release) doesn't fail any more if a news item was removed. See also bug 287887 [1] for a discussion how removed items should be handled. Ulrich [1] <http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=287887>