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On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 15:52 +0200, Jakub Moc wrote: |
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> Hello everyone, |
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> I've filed a bug about slang-2 version bump [1] more than one year ago. |
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> As it hasn't moved anywhere, I'm sending a call for maintainer here. |
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> It's a pretty important bump for UTF-8 compatibility and is really |
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> needed to get rid of those hackish slang UTF-8 patches in stuff like |
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> app-misc/mc that just tend to break stuff. |
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Just a bit of background since I'm listed as the maintainer. I took an |
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interest in this package because it was a direct dependency on a package |
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I maintained, app-editors/jed. Then CJK came along and applied a bunch |
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of patches and somewhere along the line, CJK became the primary |
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maintainer because no one else would. |
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As for slang-2, there was no immediate package that required version 2, |
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and I could never get the submitted ebuilds to compile for me, so I left |
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the bug alone. |
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I would be grateful for someone to take over this who might have more of |
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an interest in this library as CJK isn't exactly the most manned herd |
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around. |
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Just a note for any future maintainers, app-editors/jed-0.99.16 will not |
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work with slang-2. I believe the newer version that was released in |
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April will (although I only just found out about this release today.) |
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Cheers, |
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Alastair |
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