[gentoo-dev] Last rites: net-irc/ngircd

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: net-irc/ngircd

[Sam James]

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Hi,

First, I apologise for letting the package rot a bit. It's wonderful
software that's pretty neat, but I've lost all motivation for caring
for it because upstream insist on using ancient automake for its
ansi2knr tool, removed in later automake releases.

See https://github.com/ngircd/ngircd/issues/261#issuecomment-1369266180.

While we could just patch the generated configure, it's an ongoing
problem if we have to make future changes, and given I've been
championing the Modern C work, I just can't really bring myself to do it
here.

I'm last-riting net-irc/ngircd accordingly. Feel free to adopt it and
unmask it if you're willing to do that handrolling of the configure
patch for https://bugs.gentoo.org/946998 or somehow persuade upstream.

(It might be possible to maintain a tiny meson port for it. Maybe
upstream would even accept such a thing if it lived alongside autotools
in the repo.)

# Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> (2024-12-27)
# Unfixable modern C issues because of reliance on ancient automake.
# Out of date. See bug #946998. Removal on 2025-01-27.
net-irc/ngircd

thanks,
sam

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[gentoo-dev] Last rites: net-irc/ngircd

[Sam James]

[resending as I forgot the other list.]

Hi,

First, I apologise for letting the package rot a bit. It's wonderful
software that's pretty neat, but I've lost all motivation for caring
for it because upstream insist on using ancient automake for its
ansi2knr tool, removed in later automake releases.

See https://github.com/ngircd/ngircd/issues/261#issuecomment-1369266180.

While we could just patch the generated configure, it's an ongoing
problem if we have to make future changes, and given I've been
championing the Modern C work, I just can't really bring myself to do it
here.

I'm last-riting net-irc/ngircd accordingly. Feel free to adopt it and
unmask it if you're willing to do that handrolling of the configure
patch for https://bugs.gentoo.org/946998 or somehow persuade upstream.

(It might be possible to maintain a tiny meson port for it. Maybe
upstream would even accept such a thing if it lived alongside autotools
in the repo.)

# Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> (2024-12-27)
# Unfixable modern C issues because of reliance on ancient automake.
# Out of date. See bug #946998. Removal on 2025-01-27.
net-irc/ngircd

thanks,
sam