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Hello, everyone. |
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I feel that the time has come to last-rite sys-apps/paludis. Given that |
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we're talking about a package manager, I've decided to give you all |
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a heads up. I will probably go for 90 day period but I don't think this |
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is going to help much unless someone is willing to put a tremendous |
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effort in either getting it actively maintained upstream once more, |
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or forks it. |
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The truth is, Paludis has been on life support for quite some time |
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already. Upstream was not really interested in supporting Gentoo which |
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both resulted in Paludis staying behind on features and hitting issues |
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with new versions and/or Gentoo packaging of dependencies. Furthermore, |
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upstream seems to really have lost willingness to work on Paludis |
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at all. |
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The last upstream release was in May 2016. Since then, I've been |
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chasing snapshots to fix build-time failures, especially with new boost |
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and gcc versions. Today, Paludis once again fails to build with new |
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boost, upstream doesn't even seem aware of the issue and I really don't |
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feel like there's any purpose in chasing it once again. It's not |
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helpful that boost-python breaks frequently, and upstream doesn't really |
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care about keeping the Python API. |
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In the meantime, Paludis has failed to follow any changes in Gentoo. |
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EAPI 6 was never fully implemented (on purpose). It's unlikely that |
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EAPI 7 would be implemented at all (Paludis upstream apparently doesn't |
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like it). Portage configuration support is stuck years behind, with no |
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awareness of repos.conf. New Manifest hashes were not implemented. |
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Patch for news item format 2.0 is waiting on upstream bug tracker for 3 |
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months already. |
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I've filed a few Gentoo bugs to track appropriate bugs upstream, |
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and collected the most important issues in last rite tracker [1]. |
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Other useful resources: all sys-apps/paludis bugs [2], upstream bug |
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tracker (yes, it's very slow) [3], upstream git [4]. |
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If you'd like Paludis to stay, I'm afraid you'll either need to start |
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working hard on patches and find a way to make upstream merge them, or |
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fork Paludis and start improving its Gentoo support. |
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[1]:https://bugs.gentoo.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=658278 |
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[2]:https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=sys-apps%2Fpaludis |
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[3]:http://paludis.exherbo.org/trac/ |
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[4]:https://git.exherbo.org/paludis/paludis.git/ |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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