Re: [gentoo-dev] What is the source for https://dev.gentoo.org/~hollow/distfiles/genqmail-*

[Rolf Eike Beer]

Am Donnerstag, 10. Oktober 2019, 12:15:09 CEST schrieb Michał Górny:
> Dnia October 10, 2019 9:39:38 AM UTC, Rolf Eike Beer <eike@×××××××.de>
napisał(a):
> >Am Samstag, 21. September 2019, 10:50:07 CEST schrieb Rolf Eike Beer:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm planning to do some cleanups to the qmail stuff. One thing s that the
> >> genqmail tarball is from 20080406 and needs to be patched itself, which
> >> makes things complicated. So, does anyone know what was the source of
> >> these tarballs? I can't look into the directory, maybe there are even
> >> older ones?
> >
> >> Otherwise I would propose to just start a new git repo for that and do a
> >> new snapshot with the patches already incorporated.
> >
> >So I guess noone knows. Can someone assist me in creating a new upstream? I
> >have created a new git repository with the original tarball and the 2
> >existing patches, which can be found here:
> >https://github.com/DerDakon/genqmail
> >
> >Please pick this up and move it somewhere into Gentoo git infrastructure. I
> >can transfer ownership to the Github Gentoo organization if you would like.
> >Afterwards I just need someone to push the button and create a new snapshot
> >from that (preferably together with a git tag).
>
> Is there really a reason to do that? Since you're maintaining it, just keep
> it on your gh.

I just want to prevent that the same thing happens again.

Eike