I am setting up a new machine with the same software like my old, defective one. I had squirrelmail-1.5.1-r6 on it but it seems that now gentoo offers only squirremail 1.4. Is this a bug? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge --sync 2. ls /usr/portage/mail-client/squirrelmail/ Actual Results: ChangeLog Manifest files metadata.xml squirrelmail-1.4.16.ebuild squirrelmail-1.4.17.ebuild Expected Results: to have a squirrelmail-1.5.1-r* something ebuild Pallas squirrelmail # emerge --info Portage 2.1.4.5 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.18-028stab056 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.18-028stab056 x86_64 unknown Timestamp of tree: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:15:02 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r4, 2.5.2-r7 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0_rc4-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.61-r2 sys-devel/automake: 1.10.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ " LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="de en" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="acl amd64 apache2 berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cups dri fortran gdbm gpm iconv isdnlog midi mmx mudflap multilib ncurses network-cron nls nptl nptlonly openmp pam pcre perl pppd python readline reflection session spell spl sse sse2 ssl sysfs tcpd truetype unicode userlocales xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="alias auth_basic auth_digest authz_host dir mime" APACHE2_MPMS="prefork" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev glint i810 intel mach64 mga neomagic nv r128 radeon savage sis tdfx trident vesa vga via vmware voodoo" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
According to the cvs logs [0] it was removed because it contained a large file in the files directory by dertobi to resolve bug #248980 [0] http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/mail-client/squirrelmail/?hideattic=0 After some browsing arounf the squirrelmail SF project [1], it looks like ultimately the reason the 1.5 versions were removed was because it was a development branch where the last release is now over 2 years old [2] [1] http://sf.net/projects/squirrelmail [2] http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=541690
I don't think the 1.5 builds were ever supposed to go stable anyway.
(In reply to comment #0) > I am setting up a new machine with the same software like my old, defective > one. I had squirrelmail-1.5.1-r6 on it but it seems that now gentoo offers only > squirremail 1.4. Is this a bug? No - it's a feature. Allen already pointed out the reasons to remove 1.5, it was a very outdated development snapshot. Also it was package.masked and from a security pov I personally wouldn't run such unsupported software on a production box. This one is a WONTFIX.
*** Bug 253900 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
