From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D16761580FD for ; Fri, 27 Dec 2024 08:09:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6CBABE07D8; Fri, 27 Dec 2024 08:09:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (dev.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D3234E069C; Fri, 27 Dec 2024 08:09:18 +0000 (UTC) From: Sam James To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org, gentoo-dev-announce@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: net-irc/ngircd Organization: Gentoo User-Agent: mu4e 1.12.7; emacs 31.0.50 Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2024 08:09:15 +0000 Message-ID: <87zfkhsg2c.fsf@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Archives-Salt: 1dd14b96-fe4b-48e6-a805-d0d3d9ff71be X-Archives-Hash: b7f9d7a3988bbc0f0c7e0a28094e82dc [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 (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