Bug 587140

Summary:	dev-vcs/cvs: clean up request
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Michał Górny <mgorny>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Maintainers for cvs, and cvs related tools (the version control system) [OBSOLETE] <cvs-utils+obsolete>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	qa, treecleaner
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124733
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	527952

Description Michał Górny archtester

2016-06-26 13:34:01 UTC

# Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> (11 Feb 2006)
# zlib interaction is badly broken. See bug #124733.
=dev-vcs/cvs-1.12.13*


This is masked for over 10 years already, and upstream haven't gotten a single release since. Considering that we no longer use CVS for Gentoo, can we unmask it or try to fix the issue at hand?

I'd love to last rite the whole damn thing but I guess we don't have a good replacement for accessing old repos, do we?

In any case, please at least wipe or let me wipe the redundant old revisions.

Comment 1 Robin Johnson archtester

2016-06-27 22:12:56 UTC

I've drop everything except cvs-1.12.12-r10.
Upstream development is ~dead.

We do still have old CVS repos that are probably going to remain as historical content, and have a very low demand for migration, plus poor users that use CVS on external work stuff still, so it can't completely go away.