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Re: Last rites: app-text/cuneiform

From:  Rich Freeman <rich0-AT-gentoo.org>
To:  gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev-AT-lists.gentoo.org>
Subject:  Re: Last rites: app-text/cuneiform
Date:  Sun, 24 Mar 2013 20:26:03 -0400 (22 hours, 8 minutes, 17 seconds ago)
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On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 8:23 PM, Patrick Lauer <patrick@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 03/24/2013 09:40 PM, Peter Stuge wrote:
>> Markos Chandras wrote:
>>> The masks are sort of announcements as you have 30 days to revert that
>>> decision.
>>
>> You don't seem to recognize the quite significant psychological
>> impact of you having already made the decision, compared to, say,
>> having an actually inclusive package removal process.
>
> If the package has been "rotting away" with open bugs in bugzilla for
> weeks or months and no one cares ... what are we supposed to do? Wait a
> bit longer?

I suspect the concern is over the definition of "rotting away."  Just
about every package in the tree has had open bugs for weeks and
months.  Not all bugs are worth fixing right away, but that doesn't
mean they aren't valid.  When they can be fixed, they are.

Packages without bugs are packages that nobody has bothered to test...  :)

Rich




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