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From: James Le Cuirot <chewi@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last Rites: app-pda/gtkpod
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2022 22:09:55
Message-Id: 198440fd7907fd0d9980bb9d47d0cef5ca360d8f.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last Rites: app-pda/gtkpod by Matt Turner
1 On Sun, 2022-04-24 at 13:29 -0700, Matt Turner wrote:
2 > On Sun, Apr 3, 2022 at 1:56 PM Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o> wrote:
3 > >
4 > > On Sun, Apr 3, 2022 at 1:53 AM James Le Cuirot <chewi@g.o> wrote:
5 > > >
6 > > > On Sat, 2022-04-02 at 21:35 -0700, Matt Turner wrote:
7 > > > > # Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o> (2022-03-27)
8 > > > > # Dead package. Homepage doesn't resolve. Unmaintained in Gentoo for at
9 > > > > # least 6 years.
10 > > > > # Removal on 2022-05-02
11 > > > > app-pda/gtkpod
12 > > >
13 > > > I do still use this on rare occasions. It's not my favourite program but there
14 > > > are no good alternatives, short of using Rhythmbox, which does more than I
15 > > > want. I'm not aware that it's actually broken, aside from a couple of minor
16 > > > warts in the package. Does it have to go?
17 > >
18 > > No, if you want to keep it -- feel free. I just saw it because it's
19 > > the only reverse dependency of dev-util/anjuta which looks pretty dead
20 > > itself, and then I saw how much more dead gtkpod looks.
21 > >
22 > > If you can break the dependence on anjuta (which I didn't
23 > > investigate), I'd have no problem keeping it. Would be nice to have an
24 > > actual maintainer as well.
25 >
26 >
27 > Removal date is approaching. Are you planning to take this?
28
29 Sorry, I kept putting this off. Yeah, I'll take it... for now. :)

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