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  • [gentoo-user] seems lots of packages no longer in the tree

    From John Covici@21:1/5 to All on Sun Sep 25 16:10:01 2022
    Hi. I updated the tree yesterday using git. Now, in this mornings
    batch of announcements, I am finding lots of packages no longer in the
    tree -- one of them is app-admin/logcheck . Another is rxvt. Now, I
    don't use these packages, but I am wondering if something has gone
    wrong with my tree?

    Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

    --
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    How do
    you spend it?

    John Covici wb2una
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  • From John Covici@21:1/5 to Arve Barsnes on Sun Sep 25 17:10:01 2022
    On Sun, 25 Sep 2022 10:33:57 -0400,
    Arve Barsnes wrote:

    On Sun, 25 Sept 2022 at 16:04, John Covici <[email protected]> wrote:

    Hi. I updated the tree yesterday using git. Now, in this mornings
    batch of announcements, I am finding lots of packages no longer in the
    tree -- one of them is app-admin/logcheck . Another is rxvt. Now, I
    don't use these packages, but I am wondering if something has gone
    wrong with my tree?

    I don't have either of those packages in my tree, so we're in the same
    boat. I don't know about rxvt (rxvt-unicode is still in the tree), but logcheck was lastrited on the gentoo-dev mailing list a while back, so
    I assume it was expected to disappear.
    But they had an announcement about a bug fix to logcheck and there are
    others like dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin which seems strange to me.

    --
    Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
    How do
    you spend it?

    John Covici wb2una
    [email protected]

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  • From Michael Orlitzky@21:1/5 to John Covici on Sun Sep 25 16:40:01 2022
    On Sun, 2022-09-25 at 10:04 -0400, John Covici wrote:
    Hi. I updated the tree yesterday using git. Now, in this mornings
    batch of announcements, I am finding lots of packages no longer in the
    tree -- one of them is app-admin/logcheck . Another is rxvt. Now, I
    don't use these packages, but I am wondering if something has gone
    wrong with my tree?



    Logcheck was removed because it had a security issue that I reported
    five years ago and nobody has cared enough to fix it since then. It was package.masked for a while too and nobody complained.

    x11-terms/rxvt was not removed recently. Do you mean mrxvt? If so, I
    think it was removed for a similar reason:

    https://bugs.gentoo.org/791004

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  • From Arve Barsnes@21:1/5 to John Covici on Sun Sep 25 16:40:01 2022
    On Sun, 25 Sept 2022 at 16:04, John Covici <[email protected]> wrote:

    Hi. I updated the tree yesterday using git. Now, in this mornings
    batch of announcements, I am finding lots of packages no longer in the
    tree -- one of them is app-admin/logcheck . Another is rxvt. Now, I
    don't use these packages, but I am wondering if something has gone
    wrong with my tree?

    I don't have either of those packages in my tree, so we're in the same
    boat. I don't know about rxvt (rxvt-unicode is still in the tree), but
    logcheck was lastrited on the gentoo-dev mailing list a while back, so
    I assume it was expected to disappear.

    Regards,
    Arve

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  • From John Covici@21:1/5 to Michael Orlitzky on Sun Sep 25 17:10:01 2022
    On Sun, 25 Sep 2022 10:38:49 -0400,
    Michael Orlitzky wrote:

    On Sun, 2022-09-25 at 10:04 -0400, John Covici wrote:
    Hi. I updated the tree yesterday using git. Now, in this mornings
    batch of announcements, I am finding lots of packages no longer in the
    tree -- one of them is app-admin/logcheck . Another is rxvt. Now, I
    don't use these packages, but I am wondering if something has gone
    wrong with my tree?



    Logcheck was removed because it had a security issue that I reported
    five years ago and nobody has cared enough to fix it since then. It was package.masked for a while too and nobody complained.

    x11-terms/rxvt was not removed recently. Do you mean mrxvt? If so, I
    think it was removed for a similar reason:

    https://bugs.gentoo.org/791004

    It was mrxvt. But why would the announcement list specify valid
    versions for those packages, if they have been removed?

    --
    Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
    How do
    you spend it?

    John Covici wb2una
    [email protected]

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  • From Neil Bothwick@21:1/5 to John Covici on Sun Sep 25 22:20:01 2022
    On Sun, 25 Sep 2022 11:07:38 -0400, John Covici wrote:

    think it was removed for a similar reason:

    https://bugs.gentoo.org/791004

    It was mrxvt. But why would the announcement list specify valid
    versions for those packages, if they have been removed?

    It specifies the affected versions that were in the tree, probably
    because those are what people may have installed. It also states "

    Resolution
    ==========

    Gentoo has discontinued support for Mrxvt. We recommend that users
    remove it:

    # emerge --ask --depclean "x11-terms/mrxvt"

    with similar recommendations for the other packages you mention, except
    for oracle-jdk where it recommends alternatives.


    --
    Neil Bothwick

    ISDN: It Still Does Nothing

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  • From John Covici@21:1/5 to Neil Bothwick on Sun Sep 25 23:30:02 2022
    On Sun, 25 Sep 2022 16:16:41 -0400,
    Neil Bothwick wrote:

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    On Sun, 25 Sep 2022 11:07:38 -0400, John Covici wrote:

    think it was removed for a similar reason:

    https://bugs.gentoo.org/791004

    It was mrxvt. But why would the announcement list specify valid
    versions for those packages, if they have been removed?

    It specifies the affected versions that were in the tree, probably
    because those are what people may have installed. It also states "

    Resolution
    ==========

    Gentoo has discontinued support for Mrxvt. We recommend that users
    remove it:

    # emerge --ask --depclean "x11-terms/mrxvt"

    with similar recommendations for the other packages you mention, except
    for oracle-jdk where it recommends alternatives.

    OK, I usually don't read past the effected packages part, so I didn't
    see those recomendations -- thanks.

    --
    Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
    How do
    you spend it?

    John Covici wb2una
    [email protected]

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