Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-nntp/inn

2010-01-12 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:18:59 +0100 Arnaud Launay wrote: > I have absolutely no idea how much work it requires, so I won't > complain if TC says it's too complicated/unpratical/etc. rm -r * is easy. > BTW, I have no knowledge of the concept of proxy-maintainer, I'll > look at it tomorrow, it's 2

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-nntp/inn

2010-01-12 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:37:19 + (UTC) Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > So going with this idea... Isn't the treecleaner masking 30-day at > present? What about extending that just a bit, to 5 weeks total, > while reducing the actual masking to 4 weeks, with the extra week a > wait time

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-nntp/inn

2010-01-12 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:51:28 +0100 Tomáš Chvátal wrote: > > you need to fix your filter then. an "open bug" is not an > > acceptable reason for masking a package. if you're going to clean > > a package, you need to research actual reasons to mask & punt. > > -mike > Dont be joking, > Your appro

[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-nntp/inn

2010-01-12 Thread Arnaud Launay
Le Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:37:19PM +, Duncan a écrit: > FWIW, I feel for the treecleaners. It's a job with little > thanks and lots of chance to make someone mad at you, but I'm > glad /someone's/ doing it! =:^) Yeah. I'm glad each time I see old things getting deleted, abandoned software and

[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-nntp/inn

2010-01-12 Thread Duncan
Richard Freeman posted on Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:07:38 -0500 as excerpted: > On 01/12/2010 01:30 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: >> IMHO ( this is not a treecleaners@ opinion, i m just talking for my >> self ), announcing and masking a package is a good way to inform and >> wake up everybody to take care

Re: [gentoo-dev] adding a modification timestamp to the installed pkgs database (vdb)

2010-01-12 Thread Brian Harring
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:12:52AM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:35:51 -0700 > Denis Dupeyron wrote: > > I'm a bit surprised by the low amount of discussions this topic has > > generated. > > There's no discussion because Brian refuses to address any comments on > the pro

[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-nntp/inn

2010-01-12 Thread Duncan
Ben de Groot posted on Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:35:45 +0100 as excerpted: > 2010/1/12 Markos Chandras : >> If you feel like it, become a proxy-maintainer and poke a developer to >> put your ebuilds on tree. Have you ever heard of that ? :) > > Proxy-maintainership should be given a MUCH higher profile

[gentoo-dev] Re: Digest of gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org issue 763 (39032-39081)

2010-01-12 Thread Rick Sivernell
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:08:34 + (UTC) gentoo-dev+h...@lists.gentoo.org wrote: > Topics (messages 39032 through 39081): > > [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] January 2010 meeting date > 39032 - Mike Frysinger > > [gentoo-dev] Non-free software in Gentoo > 39033 - Richard Free

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-nntp/inn

2010-01-12 Thread Denis Dupeyron
2010/1/12 Tomáš Chvátal : > Dont be joking, [...] Mmmh? Take a deep breath, a long walk, a large beer, or whatever works. Because you need it. Denis.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-nntp/inn

2010-01-12 Thread Tomáš Chvátal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dne 12.1.2010 21:33, Mike Frysinger napsal(a): > On Monday 11 January 2010 22:43:18 Jeremy Olexa wrote: >> On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:36:37 -0500, Richard Freeman wrote: >>> On 01/11/2010 06:30 PM, Arnaud Launay wrote: As a newsmaster, I'm a bit conce

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-nntp/inn

2010-01-12 Thread Ben de Groot
2010/1/12 Markos Chandras : > If you feel like it, become a proxy-maintainer and poke a developer to put > your ebuilds on tree. Have you ever heard of that ? :) Proxy-maintainership should be given a MUCH higher profile in Gentoo, in my opinion. It is a virtually unknown option. Another thing th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-nntp/inn

2010-01-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 11 January 2010 22:43:18 Jeremy Olexa wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:36:37 -0500, Richard Freeman wrote: > > On 01/11/2010 06:30 PM, Arnaud Launay wrote: > >> As a newsmaster, I'm a bit concerned by this. > > > > Yeah, inn seems like a really high-profile package to mask for removal. > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: net-nntp/inn

2010-01-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 11 January 2010 20:00:40 Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:31:08 -0500 Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Monday 11 January 2010 16:05:16 Markos Chandras wrote: > > > # Markos Chandras (11 Jan 2010) > > > # Fails with -Wl,--as-needed > > > # bug #182782. Removal in 30 days > > > n

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-nntp/inn

2010-01-12 Thread Markos Chandras
On Tuesday 12 January 2010 21:40:37 Arnaud Launay wrote: > Le Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 08:30:26PM +0200, Markos Chandras a écrit: > > So if you want a package, plz take care of it :) > > From a "user" point of view, having submitted ebuilds, patches > ideas and questions here and there on bugs.go, I m

[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-nntp/inn

2010-01-12 Thread Arnaud Launay
Le Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 08:30:26PM +0200, Markos Chandras a écrit: > So if you want a package, plz take care of it :) From a "user" point of view, having submitted ebuilds, patches ideas and questions here and there on bugs.go, I must admit I end up putting up my "contributions" on my local /usr/l

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-nntp/inn

2010-01-12 Thread Richard Freeman
On 01/12/2010 01:30 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: IMHO ( this is not a treecleaners@ opinion, i m just talking for my self ), announcing and masking a package is a good way to inform and wake up everybody to take care of this package if they really really want to stay on portage. I agree with the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-nntp/inn

2010-01-12 Thread Markos Chandras
On Tuesday 12 January 2010 20:21:59 Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:32:06 +0200 > > Markos Chandras wrote: > > Thanks for saving this package. As Jeremy said, there is absolutely > > no way to measure the popularity of a package. So if it has no > > maintainer, and open bugs we hav

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-nntp/inn

2010-01-12 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:32:06 +0200 Markos Chandras wrote: > Thanks for saving this package. As Jeremy said, there is absolutely > no way to measure the popularity of a package. So if it has no > maintainer, and open bugs we have to mask it and announce it here. It > is up to you whether you want

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-nntp/inn

2010-01-12 Thread Richard Freeman
On 01/11/2010 10:43 PM, Jeremy Olexa wrote: (A general reply, not targeted towards you, Rich) No prob - my post wasn't really directed personally at anybody. Speaking on behalf of the treecleaners: The fact is, some of us have never heard of "inn" and until Gentoo has some sort of "popularit

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-nntp/inn

2010-01-12 Thread Markos Chandras
On Tuesday 12 January 2010 04:22:05 Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:02:14 +0100 > > Jeroen Roovers wrote: > > I'm working on getting 2.5.1 in the tree (and fixing a USE=python and > > some other issues while I'm at it). > > net-nntp/inn-2.5.1 is in the tree and fixes many (QA) iss

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: PYTHON_DEPEND - Suggested replacement for NEED_PYTHON

2010-01-12 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2010-01-11 11:14:40 Fabian Groffen napisał(a): > On 11-01-2010 08:29:32 +, Duncan wrote: > > Fabian Groffen posted on Mon, 11 Jan 2010 08:50:30 +0100 as excerpted: > > > > > On 11-01-2010 01:25:45 +0100, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: > > >> > Can you explain the intended use of th

Re: [gentoo-dev] PYTHON_DEPEND - Suggested replacement for NEED_PYTHON

2010-01-12 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2010-01-11 11:14:11 Maciej Mrozowski napisał(a): > On Monday 11 of January 2010 01:25:45 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis > wrote: > > 2010-01-10 21:56:01 Fabian Groffen napisał(a): > > > On 10-01-2010 09:29:28 +0100, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: > > > > I would like to suggest in

Re: [gentoo-dev] PYTHON_DEPEND - Suggested replacement for NEED_PYTHON

2010-01-12 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2010-01-11 12:04:05 Gilles Dartiguelongue napisał(a): > It looks like what you really want is a ranged dependencies. Dependencies specified in PYTHON_DEPEND can be expanded into ranged dependencies in EAPIs, which support ranged dependencies. -- Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis signature.as

Re: [gentoo-dev] adding a modification timestamp to the installed pkgs database (vdb)

2010-01-12 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:35:51 -0700 Denis Dupeyron wrote: > I'm a bit surprised by the low amount of discussions this topic has > generated. There's no discussion because Brian refuses to address any comments on the proposal and just says "we should do it anyway, and if you want it done properly i

Re: [gentoo-dev] net-fs/netatalk is facing removal

2010-01-12 Thread Doug Goldstein
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > since noone seems to care about this package, and it's blocking glibc > stabilization it will be removed from tree wrt bug 300218 > > last chance > > thanks, Samuli > > Its been saved. -- Doug Goldstein