337133 – app-emacs/gnus removal

Bug 337133 - app-emacs/gnus removal

Summary: app-emacs/gnus removal

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Emacs project

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Whiteboard:	Pending removal 2010-10-13
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Reported:	2010-09-13 20:13 UTC by Ulrich Müller
Modified:	2010-10-17 21:08 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2010-09-13 20:13:57 UTC

Last stand-alone release was 5.10.10 in 2008. Newer versions are included with app-editors/emacs (e.g. version 5.11 in Emacs 22) or app-editors/emacs-vcs.

From <http://www.gnus.org/distribution.html>:
| Stable versions of Gnus is included in the Emacs and XEmacs editors.
| If you want more leading-edge versions of Gnus, I would suggest using the
| bzr Emacs repository.
| If you want total bleeding edge Gnus, use the Gnus git repository.

Upstream changed from CVS to Git five months ago, however, nobody has reported that our live ebuild app-emacs/gnus-9999 is still CVS-based. From this I conclude that a live ebuild is not needed. (And it could be recreated in the Emacs overlay in the unlikely case that there is a user's request for it.)

Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2010-09-13 20:20:39 UTC

# Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> (13 Sep 2010)
# Last release in 2008. Newer versions are included
# with app-editors/emacs or app-editors/emacs-vcs.
# Masked for removal in 30 days, bug 337133.
app-emacs/gnus

Comment 2 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2010-10-17 21:08:39 UTC

Package removed.