On 2011.08.18 10:59, Anthony G. Basile wrote: [snip] > Understood that infra gets to complain, but that still doesn't tell > me > what the deprecation policy is. Keep all my large patchsets > indefinitely? Or remove them when an ebuild no longer needs them? Or > 1 > year after an ebuild no longer needs them? > > -- > Anthony G. Basile, Ph. D. > Chair of Information Technology > D'Youville College > Buffalo, NY 14201 > (716) 829-8197 > > Just as long as we can provide the patch sets for a period of at least three years, in case someone asks. Thats a GPL requirement.
Thats not to say the files need to be online but Gentoo needs to be able to provide them on request. -- Regards, Roy Bamford (Neddyseagoon) a member of elections gentoo-ops forum-mods trustees
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