Suggested removals from portage tree: net-firewall/shorewall-common-4.2.4.ebuild net-firewall/shorewall-common-4.2.6.ebuild net-firewall/shorewall-common-4.2.7.ebuild net-firewall/shorewall-lite-4.2.4.ebuild net-firewall/shorewall-lite-4.2.6.ebuild net-firewall/shorewall-lite-4.2.7.ebuild net-firewall/shorewall-perl-4.2.4.6.ebuild net-firewall/shorewall-perl-4.2.6.ebuild net-firewall/shorewall-perl-4.2.6.1.ebuild net-firewall/shorewall-perl-4.2.7.1.ebuild net-firewall/shorewall-shell-4.2.4.ebuild net-firewall/shorewall-shell-4.2.6.ebuild net-firewall/shorewall-shell-4.2.7.ebuild net-firewall/shorewall6-4.2.4.1.ebuild net-firewall/shorewall6-4.2.6.ebuild net-firewall/shorewall6-lite-4.2.4.1.ebuild net-firewall/shorewall6-lite-4.2.6.ebuild Reproducible: Always
Reason?
(In reply to comment #1) > Reason? While shorewall 4.0.x is stable and hasn't had serious bug fix releases, 4.2.x has gone through several "rapid-fire" releases (2009 has had a release every month; without counting patch fixes). All of these releases are "minor". My point of view regarding the shorewall* packages is that, for now: - 4.0.x should be considered "rock-solid" stable - 4.2.x should be considered "feature-rich" but "relatively stable", so should be kept in ~arch for now. - to save portage tree space, I think it's more than safe to keep only the two latest 4.2 ebuilds (4.2.8 and 4.2.9 which has already been released upstream). - when the 4.2 release cycle becomes slower then maybe more 4.2 versions can be kept in the tree. Anyway, this is only my feedback to the following bug report: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=269578 Please note that I am NOT suggesting to remove the oldest shorewall release: net-firewall/shorewall/shorewall-3.4.8.ebuild because it is still on the upstream servers and publicized in the shorewall download section.
Old ebuilds were dropped from the tree. Thank you, Vieri. (In reply to comment #1) > Reason? The reasoning is quite simple: upstream makes minor releases to fix bugs and we don't want to archive old and broken packages in our tree. Thus from time to time we clean them out.
