Bug 518874

Summary:	app-benchmarks/ltp has old package.mask entry
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	William Hubbs <williamh>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Markos Chandras (RETIRED) <hwoarang>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	benchmarks, qa
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description William Hubbs gentoo-dev

2014-08-02 21:20:47 UTC

# Markos Chandras <hwoarang@gentoo.org> (03 Nov 2012)
# Masked for testing
app-benchmarks/ltp

This package.mask entry has been in place for a long time.

Can you remove the entry and either allow the package to go to ~arch, or
remove the package if it is broken?

Thanks,

William

Comment 1 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2014-09-02 19:39:08 UTC

I will update the mask message. the package is not in a good shape to be in ~arch but it's useful enough to be in the tree.

Comment 2 Chris Reffett (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2014-09-03 15:23:55 UTC

What exactly does "not good enough shape" mean? Bad ebuild? Package itself is bad? Please elaborate on exactly what is wrong with it that makes it unsuitable for ~arch.

Comment 3 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2014-09-03 18:53:20 UTC

It means the way the ebuild is written makes the package not fully functional so one can unmask it and use it but it will not function 100%. Some things are missing/disabled and I need to dig further to fix them. Is that not good enough reason to keep it masked?

Comment 4 Chris Reffett (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2014-09-03 18:55:44 UTC

If it's been in the tree for two years and still is not functional, then it probably needs to go to an overlay or something until it's actually ready to be in the tree.

Comment 5 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2014-09-03 19:21:30 UTC

(In reply to Chris Reffett from comment #4)
> If it's been in the tree for two years and still is not functional, then it
> probably needs to go to an overlay or something until it's actually ready to
> be in the tree.

Sorry, i meant the latest version is not functional. The other one, for all I know, it probably works. So I will adjust the mask and close the bug