From 87f59a04f21df26c319327d412490c83a4ae1eb7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ulrich Müller Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2021 19:07:05 +0200 Subject: README: Add note about missing app-games category MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller --- README | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/README b/README index d89bc6e..ef65f8f 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -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 -- cgit v1.2.3-65-gdbad