Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Ashley Dixon <ash@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: sci-chemistry/ortep3
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 02:20:44
Message-Id: 20200917021853.fsq7dadaoimfm5nh@ad-gentoo-main
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: sci-chemistry/ortep3 by David Seifert
1 On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 10:21:17PM +0200, David Seifert wrote:
2 > # David Seifert <soap@g.o> (2020-09-16)
3 > # EAPI 4, last release in 2001, the Fortran source code
4 > # is terrible and has buffer overflows.
5 > # Removal in 30 days. Bug #664120, #742008.
6 > sci-chemistry/ortep3
7
8 I can't see how this ebuild was working at all, regardless of the aforementioned
9 bugs. SRC_URI has been dead for many years, along with HOMEPAGE [1]. It seems to
10 have been mirrored at [2] and [3] (which the ebuild does not reflect), although
11 all the other glaring issues remain.
12
13 [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20200801000000*/http://www.ornl.gov/sci/ortep
14 [2] https://ornl-ndav.github.io/ortep/ortep.html
15 [3] https://github.com/ornl-ndav/ortep
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19 Ashley Dixon
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