Re: [gentoo-dev] sci-geosciences/googleearth is orphan and needs a dedicated maintainer

[Marc Schiffbauer]

* Tom Wijsman schrieb am 31.01.14 um 00:52 Uhr:
>On Thu, 30 Jan 2014 13:47:27 +0100
>Marc Schiffbauer <mschiff@g.o> wrote:
>
>> * Pacho Ramos schrieb am 29.01.14 um 07:58 Uhr:
>> >Currently, there is no really working version of it in the tree:
>> >https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=494624
>> >
>> >But due its bumps and current bugs, this needs a maintainer...
>> >otherwise, I would treeclean it (the problem is that looks like some
>> >people use it, but without none of them willing to maintain it, it
>> >will be difficult to handle :( )
>> >
>> >
>>
>> I would help taking care of it, as I use it sometimes.
>>
>> How oftes does this need to be bumped?
>
>Check the ChangeLog (`grep '^*' ChangeLog`):
>
>    *googleearth-7.1.1.1888 (18 Aug 2013)
>    *googleearth-7.1.1.1871 (01 Jul 2013)
>    *googleearth-7.1.1.1580 (19 May 2013)
>    *googleearth-7.0.3.8542 (02 Mar 2013)
>    *googleearth-7.0.2.8415-r2 (10 Feb 2013)
>    *googleearth-7.0.2.8415-r1 (04 Feb 2013)
>    *googleearth-7.0.2.8415 (02 Feb 2013)
>    *googleearth-6.2.2.6613 (05 May 2012)
>    *googleearth-6.2.1.6014-r1 (02 Mar 2012)
>    *googleearth-6.2.1.6014 (01 Mar 2012)
>    *googleearth-6.0.3.2197 (24 May 2011)
>    *googleearth-6.0.2.2074 (02 Apr 2011)
>    *googleearth-6.0.1.2032_beta (31 Jan 2011)
>
>Looks reasonable.
>
>The tricky thing with this package (not sure whether it has improved
>over the last year) is that there are bundled libraries; and depending
>on how you handle (or don't handle) them, it can lead to breakages. Due
>to a binary nature, this is often something you can't resolve yourself;
>iotw, this means you'll need to check up with upstream to fix these.
>
>Besides that, there is also RESTRICT="mirror"; so, you are restricted
>to providing the versions upstream provides (eg. in case you want to
>mask newer versions until a bug is resolved).

Thanks for the info Tom.

I will subscribe myself to the package. Anybody else is invited to 
help me with it.

-Marc

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