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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: media-tv/tvtime
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 12:36:41
Message-Id: kimrvo$11i$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: media-tv/tvtime by Markos Chandras
1 On 24/03/13 12:01, Markos Chandras wrote:
2 >
3 > On Mar 24, 2013 1:19 AM, "Nikos Chantziaras" <realnc@×××××.com
4 > <mailto:realnc@×××××.com>> wrote:
5 > >
6 > > On 24/03/13 02:12, Markos Chandras wrote:
7 > >>
8 > >> On 24 March 2013 00:02, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com
9 > <mailto:realnc@×××××.com>> wrote:
10 > >>>
11 > >>> On 23/03/13 01:15, Markos Chandras wrote:
12 > >>>>
13 > >>>>
14 > >>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
15 > >>>> Hash: SHA512
16 > >>>>
17 > >>>> # Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o
18 > <mailto:hwoarang@g.o>> (22 Mar 2013)
19 > >>>> # Fails with automake-1.12 (#424289)
20 > >>>> # Problems with the alsa patches (#403389)
21 > >>>> # Herd has not interest in it and needs a maintainer
22 > >>>> # Removal in a month unless a new maintainer steps up
23 > >>>> # and fix all the bugs
24 > >>>> # Alternatives: media-tv/me-tv, media-tv/mythtv
25 > >>>> media-tv/tvtime
26 > >>>
27 > >>>
28 > >>>
29 > >>> These aren't alternatives (they're only dealing with digital TV, not
30 > >>> analog.) AFAIK, tvtime has no alternatives at all. If it goes,
31 > analog TV
32 > >>> users can't watch TV anymore :-/
33 > >>
34 > >>
35 > >> Nothing I can do. It has no maintainer and quite a few outstanding
36 > >> bugs. If people need it, they should probably move it to a local
37 > >> overlay.
38 > >
39 > >
40 > > Shouldn't this be marked as maintainer-needed instead of dropping it?
41 > >
42 > >
43 > How would that help fixing all the open bugs? Maintainer-needed@g.o is
44 > for packages that have no maintainer. If they are broken we remove these
45 > as well
46
47 Are there more then the two mentioned in the mask message? Those two
48 have fixes.

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