Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs due bass retirement

[Pacho Ramos]

El lun, 19-03-2012 a las 21:20 -0600, Ryan Hill escribió:
> On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:34:22 +0100
> Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote:
>
> > El dom, 18-03-2012 a las 23:56 -0600, Ryan Hill escribió:
> > > On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:25:58 +0100
> > > Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Due his retirement the following packages need a new maintainer:
> > >
> > > > app-doc/ebookmerge
> > >
> > > This is something bass wrote that grabs html manuals from
> > > http://htmlhelp.berlios.de (which doesn't exist anymore - it moved to
> > > http://code.google.com/p/htmlhelp/).  I don't really see the usefulness of it
> > > since almost all of the content is just html versions of standard info/man
> > > pages.  Anyways, it's completely broken as-is.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > I also though it could be treecleaned until I saw patches to fix that
> > issues are included in:
> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388927
>
> Okay, I suppose people do use it.  I'd like to start an app-doc herd (I think
> vapier and me have half of app-doc/* covered anyways).  This would fit in
> there.  In the meantime I'll take it.
>
>

Any news on this herd creation? Looks like that package is still in
maintainer-needed domain, for now I have fixed all his bugs I think, but
better create that one for this and other packages that could benefit
from active maintainers :)

Thanks