Bug 684142

Summary:	net-misc/adjtimex removal request
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Michael Mair-Keimberger (iamnr3) <mmk>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Robin Johnson <robbat2>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	treecleaner
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=676292
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Description Michael Mair-Keimberger (iamnr3) 2019-04-22 19:07:56 UTC

Hi,

I think we can remove net-misc/adjtimex.
* it's last release was 2010
* HOMEPAGE, SRC_URI are broken
* EAPI2
* open bug #676292

Comment 1 Robin Johnson archtester

2019-06-16 18:46:11 UTC

Old != Broken.

The package works fine for it's intended core functionality: viewing/setting the kernel timekeeping parameters.

The new upstream does need to update the ntpdate interaction, but that is not the core function of the package.

I bumped the EAPI and Debian patch series.