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| author |   Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> | 2021-08-27 19:07:05 +0200 |
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| committer | Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> | 2021-09-14 08:44:04 +0200 |
| commit | 87f59a04f21df26c319327d412490c83a4ae1eb7 (patch) | |
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| parent | README: Convert to proper reStructuredText (diff) | |
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README: Add note about missing app-games category
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>
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@@ -189,6 +189,22 @@ the trunk (and removing it from the converted repository later):: __ https://gitlab.com/esr/cvs-fast-export/-/issues/57 +Missing app-games category +-------------------------- + +It is known that some files and directories have been moved, copied or +even deleted in the (server-side) RCS directory. This was advocated__ +as late as 2005. For example, the whole ``app-games`` category was +deleted__ server-side at some time in late 2003 or early 2004, after +its packages had been moved to ``games-*`` categories. + +Obviously, the history of these files is lost and there is no way for +the conversion to recover it. + +__ https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/029e91bdc515ddc5ae205b4694e00e91 +__ https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/ad7fa1ecae70e59d43ac70548076afcd + + .. Local Variables: .. mode: rst .. indent-tabs-mode: nil |