Bug 446962

Summary:	dev-python/pivy lastrite request
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ian Delaney (RETIRED) <idella4>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it <maintainer-needed>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	djc, tomwij, treecleaner
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Ian Delaney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-12-12 09:56:40 UTC

From Bug 425584

Pivy upstream is dead (last commit was 2010). 
Only rdep is freecad, which bundles a copy (modified by now).

Comment 1 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-12-12 11:12:30 UTC

1) You have power to assign bugs yourself. Please use it
2) You can treeclean it yourself. You have the power to do it. the process is documented in treecleaners page

Comment 2 Tom Wijsman (TomWij) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-12-12 11:51:47 UTC

For more information, see http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/bug-wranglers which explains how to handle new bugs in details. In this particular case `equery m pivy` yields "Maintainer:  maintainer-needed@gentoo.org".

A summary for assignment for in-tree packages: If there are specific instructions in the metadata, follow them. If there is only a herd, assign to the herd. If there are maintainers, assign it to the first maintainer. CC all the remaining maintainers and herds listed in the metadata.

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Comment 3 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2012-12-25 14:48:19 UTC

Regarding freecad (also maintainer-needed), what should we do? Revert it to use bundled lib or treeclean it too?

Comment 4 Julian Ospald 2012-12-25 15:14:21 UTC

1) dead upstream does not necessarily qualify a package to be treecleaned, see app-admin/verynice which is more than 10 years old.
2) if there are still packages that need this, it must not be treecleaned
3) treecleaning the reverse dependencies because we want to treeclean this is wrong
4) reverting a proper fix because we want to treeclean this, is also wrong

but... as someone said the bundled copy is modified we should check with upstream what has been modified. Maybe the unbundling already broke something in freecad.

Comment 5 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2012-12-25 19:17:15 UTC

The origin of Ian "nominating" this for treecleaning is bug 425584 (looks like it breaks with gcc-4.7)

Comment 6 Julian Ospald 2012-12-25 23:35:35 UTC

well, that is fixable, see bug 448614

Comment 7 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2012-12-26 11:18:24 UTC

(In reply to comment #6)
> well, that is fixable, see bug 448614

Nice, in that case I agree this can be kept a bit more

Comment 8 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2012-12-26 15:39:04 UTC

Now that gcc-4.7 issue is solved this is wontfix for now