Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Packages up for grabs -- xmerlin, yoswink, chtekk, omp, tantive, mueli, bluebird, hncaldwell, caleb

[José María Alonso]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 08:29:01PM +0300, Markos Chandras wrote:
> 2010/6/8 José María <nimiux@g.o>
>
> > On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 06:25:17PM +0200, Jeroen Roovers wrote:
> > > On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 13:14:07 +0200
> > > José María Alonso <nimiux@g.o> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I would be very pleased to maintain this package:
> > > >
> > > > > app-doc/repodoc
> > >
> > > > Is there any chance I can maintain this package?. What do
> > > > I have to do?.
> > >
> > > You could provide unified patches to the ebuilds to fix the four
> > > outstanding bugs[1] with the package. Someone should CC themselves on
> > > those bugs who has commit access for the thing to work, of course.
> > > Maybe the live (-9999) ebuild could use some work too.
> > >
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >      jer
> > >
> > >
> > > [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=repodoc
> > >
> >
> > Thank you very much for pointing me in the right direction.
> > I'll begin to work in those bugs.
> >
> > Cheers.
> >
> > Ok, then I won't mask this package for removal ( I was about to do it right
> now when I accidentally remembered this thread ) for now. If the bugs are
> still unresolved after 30 days I will have to mask it for removal. In the
> meantime, if you have working patches for the repodoc bugs [1], I can commit
> them for you and proxy this package for you until you gain tree access
>
> [1]: http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=repodoc

Thank you for your help in trying to get the app-doc/repodoc package
back to live :-)

I've found some information on this package:

1. I've contacted Fernando Pereda (ferdy), one of the authors of
   repodoc. He told me (as expected) that this package is no longer
   maintained. He recommends to find out if the translatos are 
   currently using this package (seems very reasonable).
   Besides, the package is not very secure, since it allows to run
   commands by using a specially modify doc.
   It is slow and the technologies used (bash and sed) are not the
   proper ones to manage XML.

2. I've pinged the gentoo-translators maillist [1] to find
   translators who are using this package. I've got only one
   negative answer in a week or so.

3. I've taken a look at the package's unresolved bugs:
   197617 - Seems tough to fix, according to yoswink and neysx
            comments.
   297946 - I've posted a comment [2] in this bug. No answer at
            the moment.
   297947 - Haven't check yet.
   299753 - Seems easy to fix.

So, IMO you can mark it for removal.

Regards.

 [1] http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-translators/msg_657e5892cf0962d65d8f778ebdda3b86.xml
 [2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=297946#c2