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From: "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Herd up for grabs: net-dialup
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2016 01:13:25
Message-Id: 569AEAA9.1030905@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Herd up for grabs: net-dialup by "Anthony G. Basile"
1 On 1/16/16 8:10 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
2 > On 1/16/16 8:09 PM, Joshua Kinard wrote:
3 >> On 01/16/2016 12:30, Michał Górny wrote:
4 >>> Hello, everyone.
5 >>>
6 >>> The current maintainer(s) of net-dialup herd has decided that he's
7 >>> (they're) not interested in keeping it and would like the packages
8 >>> to be dropped to maintainer-needed.
9 >>>
10 >>> Is anyone interested in keeping the herd as-is and maintaining all
11 >>> packages in it? If I get no reply till 2016-01-24, I will effectively
12 >>> remove the herd and announce the packages that landed in maintainer-
13 >>> -needed as a result.
14 >>>
15 >>> Packages currently in herd, along with their other maintainers:
16 >>>
17 >>> net-dialup/accel-ppp : pinkbyte@
18 >>> net-dialup/capi4k-utils :
19 >>> net-dialup/capidivert :
20 >>> net-dialup/capifwd :
21 >>> net-dialup/capisuite :
22 >>> net-dialup/cistronradius :
23 >>> net-dialup/cutecom :
24 >>> net-dialup/dial :
25 >>> net-dialup/diald :
26 >>> net-dialup/drdsl :
27 >>> net-dialup/dtrace : sbriesen@
28 >>> net-dialup/dwun :
29 >>> net-dialup/fbgetty :
30 >>> net-dialup/fcpci :
31 >>> net-dialup/freeradius :
32 >>> net-dialup/freeradius-client :
33 >>> net-dialup/globespan-adsl :
34 >>> net-dialup/gnuradius :
35 >>> net-dialup/gtkterm :
36 >>> net-dialup/hcfpcimodem :
37 >>> net-dialup/isdn-firmware :
38 >>> net-dialup/itund :
39 >>> net-dialup/kpnadsl4linux :
40 >>> net-dialup/linux-atm :
41 >>> net-dialup/lrzsz :
42 >>> net-dialup/mgetty :
43 >>> net-dialup/mingetty :
44 >>> net-dialup/minicom :
45 >>> net-dialup/mwavem :
46 >>> net-dialup/picocom : flameeyes@
47 >>> net-dialup/ppp :
48 >>> net-dialup/pppconfig :
49 >>> net-dialup/ppp-scripts :
50 >>> net-dialup/pptpclient :
51 >>> net-dialup/pptpd :
52 >>> net-dialup/qtwvdialer :
53 >>> net-dialup/radiusclient :
54 >>> net-dialup/radiusclient-ng :
55 >>> net-dialup/rp-l2tp :
56 >>> net-dialup/rp-pppoe :
57 >>> net-dialup/sendpage :
58 >>> net-dialup/sercd :
59 >>> net-dialup/speedtouch-usb :
60 >>> net-dialup/tkvoice :
61 >>> net-dialup/ueagle4-atm :
62 >>> net-dialup/ueagle-atm :
63 >>> net-dialup/wvdial :
64 >>> net-dialup/xc :
65 >>> net-dialup/xl2tpd : floppym@
66 >>> net-dns/pdnsd : polynomial-c@
67 >>> net-libs/libcapi :
68 >>> net-libs/wvstreams :
69 >>> net-misc/capiisdnmon :
70 >>> net-misc/hylafaxplus : mattm@
71 >>> net-misc/iaxmodem :
72 >>> net-misc/termpkg :
73 >>> www-apps/freeradius-dialupadmin :
74 >>>
75 >>
76 >> I can look at taking over net-dialup/xc. It rarely gets updates anyways, as
77 >> upstream never intended it to be used on Linux (Xenix and SCO OpenServer were
78 >> the intended targets). Somehow, it works, but has quite a few QA issues
79 >> (namely cavalier sprintf() usage with no buffer overflow checks). It's been on
80 >> my TODO list to fix up one of these days, as well as adding the hard-to-find
81 >> 5.x release.
82 >>
83 >> I've also played with hylafax and iaxmodem before, but no longer have setups to
84 >> test those with.
85 >>
86 >
87 >
88 > If people take care of their own packages in that list, that would
89 > really speed things up!
90 >
91
92 oops sorry wrong thread :(
93
94 --
95 Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
96 Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened]
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