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I will proceed with masking as soon as possible |
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Thanks |
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2010/6/18 José María <nimiux@g.o> |
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> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 08:29:01PM +0300, Markos Chandras wrote: |
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> > 2010/6/8 José María <nimiux@g.o> |
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> > > On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 06:25:17PM +0200, Jeroen Roovers wrote: |
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> > > > On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 13:14:07 +0200 |
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> > > > José María Alonso <nimiux@g.o> wrote: |
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> > > > |
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> > > > > I would be very pleased to maintain this package: |
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> > > > > |
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> > > > > > app-doc/repodoc |
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> > > > > Is there any chance I can maintain this package?. What do |
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> > > > > I have to do?. |
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> > > > |
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> > > > You could provide unified patches to the ebuilds to fix the four |
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> > > > outstanding bugs[1] with the package. Someone should CC themselves on |
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> > > > those bugs who has commit access for the thing to work, of course. |
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> > > > Maybe the live (-9999) ebuild could use some work too. |
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> > > > |
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> > > > |
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> > > > Regards, |
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> > > > jer |
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> > > > |
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> > > > |
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> > > > [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=repodoc |
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> > > > |
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> > > Thank you very much for pointing me in the right direction. |
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> > > I'll begin to work in those bugs. |
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> > > |
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> > > Cheers. |
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> > > |
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> > > Ok, then I won't mask this package for removal ( I was about to do it |
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> right |
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> > now when I accidentally remembered this thread ) for now. If the bugs are |
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> > still unresolved after 30 days I will have to mask it for removal. In the |
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> > meantime, if you have working patches for the repodoc bugs [1], I can |
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> commit |
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> > them for you and proxy this package for you until you gain tree access |
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> > [1]: http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=repodoc |
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> Thank you for your help in trying to get the app-doc/repodoc package |
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> back to live :-) |
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> I've found some information on this package: |
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> 1. I've contacted Fernando Pereda (ferdy), one of the authors of |
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> repodoc. He told me (as expected) that this package is no longer |
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> maintained. He recommends to find out if the translatos are |
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> currently using this package (seems very reasonable). |
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> Besides, the package is not very secure, since it allows to run |
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> commands by using a specially modify doc. |
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> It is slow and the technologies used (bash and sed) are not the |
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> proper ones to manage XML. |
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> 2. I've pinged the gentoo-translators maillist [1] to find |
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> translators who are using this package. I've got only one |
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> negative answer in a week or so. |
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> 3. I've taken a look at the package's unresolved bugs: |
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> 197617 - Seems tough to fix, according to yoswink and neysx |
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> comments. |
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> 297946 - I've posted a comment [2] in this bug. No answer at |
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> the moment. |
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> 297947 - Haven't check yet. |
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> 299753 - Seems easy to fix. |
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> So, IMO you can mark it for removal. |
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> Regards. |
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> [1] |
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> http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-translators/msg_657e5892cf0962d65d8f778ebdda3b86.xml |
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> [2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=297946#c2 |
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