Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] News item: Stable alpha keywords removed

2020-01-21 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Wed, 22 Jan 2020, Matt Turner wrote: > Title: Stable alpha keywords removed > Author: Matt Turner > Content-Type: text/plain > Posted: 2020-01-22 > Revision: 1 > News-Item-Format: 1.0 Please use format 2.0 (and remove the Content-Type). > Display-If-Keyword: alpha > The Gentoo/Alpha t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: sci-visualization/gwyddion

2020-01-21 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Mittwoch, 22. Januar 2020, 00:49:08 CET schrieb David Seifert: > # David Seifert (2020-01-21) > # No sign of py3 port, depends on EOL pygtk and gtkglext. > # Many open bugs, no revdeps. > # Bug #443088, #582454, #598682, #623314. Removal in 30 days. > sci-visualization/gwyddion Urgh. Way too u

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] News item: Stable alpha keywords removed

2020-01-21 Thread Matt Turner
Title: Stable alpha keywords removed Author: Matt Turner Content-Type: text/plain Posted: 2020-01-22 Revision: 1 News-Item-Format: 1.0 Display-If-Keyword: alpha The Gentoo/Alpha team no longer thinks that the time invested in package stabilization is warranted for the small number of users on Al

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: sci-astronomy/celestia

2020-01-21 Thread Matt Turner
On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 3:57 PM David Seifert wrote: > > # David Seifert (2020-01-21) > # All released versions depend on EOL gtkglext, no revdeps. > # Bug #644334, #694834. Removal in 30 days. > sci-astronomy/celestia This is actually a really cool piece of software (give it a try!), and the bu

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: games-strategy/gwp

2020-01-21 Thread David Seifert
# David Seifert (2020-01-21) # Upstream disappeared, no other distro still carries this, # blocks removal of EOL gtkglext, no revdeps. # Removal in 30 days. games-strategy/gwp signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: games-strategy/ufoai

2020-01-21 Thread David Seifert
# David Seifert (2020-01-21) # Blocks removal of EOL gtkglext, no revdeps. # Removal in 30 days. games-strategy/ufoai signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: media-sound/glmix

2020-01-21 Thread David Seifert
# David Seifert (2020-01-21) # Last release over 13 years ago, depends on EOL gtkglext. # No revdeps, Removal in 30 days. media-sound/glmix signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: sci-astronomy/celestia

2020-01-21 Thread David Seifert
# David Seifert (2020-01-21) # All released versions depend on EOL gtkglext, no revdeps. # Bug #644334, #694834. Removal in 30 days. sci-astronomy/celestia signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: sci-chemistry/gabedit

2020-01-21 Thread David Seifert
# David Seifert (2020-01-21) # Last release over 2 years ago, depends on EOL gtkglext. # No revdeps, Removal in 30 days. sci-chemistry/gabedit signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: sci-chemistry/ghemical

2020-01-21 Thread David Seifert
# David Seifert (2020-01-21) # Last release over 13 years ago, depends on EOL gtkglext, no revdeps. # Bug #353119, #435676. Removal in 30 days. sci-chemistry/ghemical signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: sci-physics/lightspeed

2020-01-21 Thread David Seifert
# David Seifert (2020-01-21) # Last release over 18 years ago, depends on EOL gtkglext. # No revdeps, Removal in 30 days. sci-physics/lightspeed signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: sci-visualization/gfsview

2020-01-21 Thread David Seifert
# David Seifert (2020-01-21) # Last release over 7 years ago, depends on EOL gtkglext. # No revdeps, Removal in 30 days. sci-visualization/gfsview signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: sci-visualization/gwyddion

2020-01-21 Thread David Seifert
# David Seifert (2020-01-21) # No sign of py3 port, depends on EOL pygtk and gtkglext. # Many open bugs, no revdeps. # Bug #443088, #582454, #598682, #623314. Removal in 30 days. sci-visualization/gwyddion signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-misc/gourmet and dependency

2020-01-21 Thread David Seifert
# David Seifert (2020-01-21) # No sign of py3 port, depends on EOL pygtk. No revdeps. # Bug #706030. Removal in 30 days. app-misc/gourmet dev-python/python-poppler signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-text/sary

2020-01-21 Thread David Seifert
# David Seifert (2020-01-21) # EAPI 4, last release in 2005, doesn't build, no revdeps. # Bug #664498. Removal in 30 days. app-text/sary

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pull request related to the "GLEP81 and /home" discussion

2020-01-21 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Ulrich Mueller: > You had suggested /var/lib/amavishome in that PR, three months ago. > Is there any reason why this won't work? As far as I understand QA requirements in this matter, it should work, which is why I suggested /var/lib/amavishome as a compromise. I have modified the pull request

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/2] allow acct-user home directories in /home

2020-01-21 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 06:07:06PM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > As I've said, a human uses the "amavis" account. I think this statement here needs a bit of expansion, and thus it more clarity happens. Your aforementioned human generally doesn't use the 'amavis' account in the same way that the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pull request related to the "GLEP81 and /home" discussion

2020-01-21 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Tue, 21 Jan 2020, Ralph Seichter wrote: > https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/13265 > After following the recent discussion here, I ask that somebody please > decide on what to do with this PR, which I opened 2019-10-12. You had suggested /var/lib/amavishome in that PR, three months ag

[gentoo-dev] Pull request related to the "GLEP81 and /home" discussion

2020-01-21 Thread Ralph Seichter
https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/13265 After following the recent discussion here, I ask that somebody please decide on what to do with this PR, which I opened 2019-10-12. Please either close the pull request, change it to fit QA needs, or merge it as it is. Unless this is decided in a pragm

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/2] allow acct-user home directories in /home

2020-01-21 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 1/21/20 6:44 AM, Jaco Kroon wrote: > > There is technically no real issue, but it's the right thing to do. > > Right, motivations for your proposal for allowing this: > > * You want it. > > Motivations against: > This is dishonest. "I want it" because it improves some things for our users,

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/2] allow acct-user home directories in /home

2020-01-21 Thread Jaco Kroon
Hi Michael, My background:  21 years of Linux, 18 of which was primarily on Gentoo.  17 years of no other OS other than Linux.  Ex-sysadmin for a largish setup with 4000+ active users, and ~500-600 available workstations and a number of storage and other servers.  Not to brag, just to give you an