Bug 152435

Summary:	app-arch/rpm dependency - removal request
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Alon Bar-Lev (RETIRED) <alonbl>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo TreeCleaner Project <treecleaner>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	bass, beu, karltk, kugelfang, lordvan, netmon, pva, sci, tom, vapier, wolf31o2
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Alon Bar-Lev (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-10-22 14:13:09 UTC

Hello,

The following packages uses app-arch/rpm, which is in maintainer-needed status, and it is depended of dev-libs/beecrypt that seems to be unmaintained upstream (This is the reason why I've looked at this). The app-arch/rpm2targz alternative seems like a nice one, there is also an rpm eclass that uses it.

Please try to remove the app-arch/rpm dependency.

Thanks!

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sci-libs/mkl				sci@gentoo.org
app-arch/alien			lordvan@gentoo.org
app-arch/deltarpm		vapier@gentoo.org
sys-apps/yum			maintainer-needed@gentoo.org
app-emulation/win4lin		bass@gentoo.org
net-misc/icaclient		wolf31o2@gentoo.org
dev-lang/icc			karltk@gentoo.org
dev-lang/ifc			kugelfang@gentoo.org
dev-perl/RPM			perl@gentoo.org
net-analyzer/net-snmp	netmon@gentoo.org
net-analyzer/sussen		pva@gentoo.org

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-10-22 14:20:25 UTC

Removing perl from here (see Bug 151790).

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2006-10-22 17:04:11 UTC

i dont understand the point of this bug

if you're trying to get beecrypt/rpm removed from the tree, it isnt going to happen

as for alien/yum/deltarpm, those obviously need rpm

Comment 3 Alon Bar-Lev (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-10-23 00:02:58 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> i dont understand the point of this bug

Well... I don't understand the point of having dependency that is not maintained.
If you don't think so, please close this bug.

Comment 4 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2006-10-23 00:10:45 UTC

i dont seen any open bugs for rpm so there's no point in removing it

people are using it