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Kristian Fiskerstrand posted on Fri, 16 Sep 2016 14:58:22 +0200 as |
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> On 09/16/2016 02:31 PM, Hanno Böck wrote: |
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>> media-gfx/skencil is a python-written vector graphics tool. It was once |
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>> popular before inkscape became the de-facto-standard. It hasn't seen |
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>> any upstream activity for a decade(!), but surprisingly it still seems |
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>> to work. |
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>> I haven't used it for many years myself. |
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>> There are 4 open bugs in bugzilla. |
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>> Anyone interested in taking it? (else the usual: will be reassigned to |
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>> maintainer-needed) |
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> Also sounds like a candidate for treecleaning / moving to an overlay and |
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> not keeping non-upstream maintained things in tree if nobody want to |
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> take the maintainer burden of it. |
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Why treeclean it, if it still works and can still be built against in- |
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tree python? |
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Sometimes mature packages don't get further maintenance because they |
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"just work" as they are, and don't _need_ to eventually be bloated to |
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include email and browsing functionality or whatever. |
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Of course if it requires old python and eventually the last supported in- |
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tree python is being removed, and nobody steps up to update it then, |
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/then/ it should be removed from the tree as it'll be broken /then/, but |
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that's not the case now, as Hanno explicitly said it still seems to work. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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