Re: Removing obsolete packages

[Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov%tut.by@localhost>]

> On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 03:11:40PM -0400, David Howland wrote:
 >> Aleksey Cheusov wrote:
 >> > IMHO it is much better to mark such packages
 >> > (and optionally prevent them from building) than to delete them.
 >> > In this case wip users (and new ones too) have a chance
 >> > to easyly find them and finish the required changes.
 >> 
 >> For the ones that are works-in-progress, i guess we could:
 >> 
 >> 1) mark the packages as broken/abandoned with PKG_SKIP_REASON
 >> 2) remove the SUBDIR+=pkgname from Makefile and put it in another file
 >>     (named SKIPPED or something)
 >> 
 >> Rather than just deleting them.  I guess the question is how cleaned-up 
 >> we want it to be.

> I think it would be a good idea to send an automatic email to the
> author of a package when his package's autobuild fails.  (I, for one,
> didn't realise some of my packages had broken until I had this pointed
> out to me)

> Send mail to the author once or twice, then mark the package in some
> way, and after a certain period of time delete them.

If someone (from primary pkgsrc developers ;-) ) ask sf.net guys
for about ten gigabytes of disk space and LOTS of CPU time,
it will be possible to
test wip/ packages on all platforms supported by sf.net compile farm.
AFAIU copying upstream tarballs to sf.net can also be automated.

-- 
Best regards, Aleksey Cheusov.

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