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

[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 is
>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.

>
>If that is done I can switch over the netqmail ebuild to use the new
>tarball
>so we can start to phase out the old one.
>
>Eike
>
>P.S.: you can find me on Freenode as Dakon if that makes things go
>faster


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Best regards, 
Michał Górny