From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: Policy to remove obsolete packages Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2019 23:18:04 +0100 Message-ID: <20190204221804.GA8806@jasmine.lan> References: <20190204100318.208254da@alma-ubu> <20190204180635.GB8736@jurong> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="u3/rZRmxL6MmkK24" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:35010) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gqmev-0006oj-DJ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2019 17:24:10 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gqmZj-0007No-Rg for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2019 17:18:49 -0500 Received: from wout2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([64.147.123.25]:50337) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gqmZh-0007Dd-BQ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2019 17:18:46 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20190204180635.GB8736@jurong> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Andreas Enge Cc: guix-devel --u3/rZRmxL6MmkK24 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 07:06:35PM +0100, Andreas Enge wrote: > On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 12:16:12PM +0100, Bj=F6rn H=F6fling wrote: > > If a package is broken for more than 6 months, we should just remove it > > from Guix. Prior to removing, we should announce on the dev mailing > > list, maybe someone will care about it then. If there is no response > > within 2 weeks, we really remove it. >=20 > We were both in the talk and had the same reaction, so indeed I agree. I agree with this as well. It might be tricky to know when a package has failed to build for 6 months. Do we keep build farm evaluations for that long? Can we automate failure notifications after a certain date? But, it's not so important whether or not it has been exactly 6 months. At a certain point we know it's been too long and that the package is not useful anymore. --u3/rZRmxL6MmkK24 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCAAdFiEEsFFZSPHn08G5gDigJkb6MLrKfwgFAlxYuhUACgkQJkb6MLrK fwgfOxAAp22DnL/aUfrzRXTSMcYy5BRGIPZIjDZfz1L7oTsixrZw7oksEpHBA/1K 5Un/ki58YJ6Y7lIlcGZkGbBOopL3J4QrBSL6f6MJwi0eLqDMJpnGF0D1nzCdUXw0 RqO7z5GLXzkd162sPDbhzMosBgi98H2J1EsCTBxnB11QBaTWo/9w8zIbraxI/lKf Q4Jev1QrtSud6cq1NzGq3eaV/HpqU7xetuWvCKF+Ho6ViBYGgO7AkevHh0Puxpjo BBpNnV/SBRt7nY+lLO0UnV8o8Qmo7vWsWL0JPepldaNmMh8UctwcYcF0sUbKbrb5 +fMy/xsCSGlCZAbQX4Gpx9PM0dN8sWkQW3OxW9A1fxUnmHXpXWAS658vhmSD8xQH FvjcGHWsc+Ff0NLGpEGVu7ioFIGEeOHJSfTv4JSPAc5eTqW3VmaJN5bJw6KNuSOz F+co7uiLCeaAw1vPgY2CsfaLXOcc4o+qyCxG58xsjUIIruLX62gXTgBXyJu6fbkx SmQ8I62I6nGy3Q+xiU9/NKElD37XHwZxMi7Xmg5peMs5LEt091i+P0FjDNbSr9hy l1vJ3T9KspQM8QYGH8p+uwFLZpFWaB9KeiTzGFIkCYRucCvfVIsRFdT+2ZY9INmI H9Ey2wrndv78RCSYN8R0ipGUOtNICnjvEGKHkUkzZW1v+pgWr90= =p4lv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --u3/rZRmxL6MmkK24--