Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due to samba project being disbanded

[Ian Stakenvicius]

On 2019-03-27 4:25 p.m., Michał Górny wrote:
> On Wed, 2019-03-27 at 12:18 -0700, Matt Turner wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 10:04 AM Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
>>> The samba project will most likely be disbanded shortly.  While
>>> the current project members may stay as fallback maintainers,
>>> the following packages (being part of the Samba stack) would really use
>>> new, dedicated maintainers:
>>
>> I understand disbanding projects when they're really just the old
>> "herd" concept, but this actually looks like a coherent set of
>> packages that a project should maintain. I don't see a bug about
>> disbanding samba. What's the rationale?
>
> The project's developers are no longer interested in maintaining those
> packages, and we're checking if people would be interested in some of
> them.  It's better to have a few disjoint maintainers than no
> maintainers at all.
>

Some of those are separate, but most of those packages really need to
stay together, they all even come from the same upstream source...  I
don't know if disbanding the project is a good idea for that one.
These packages at minimum all need to be maintained together:

net-fs/samba
sys-libs/talloc [#]
sys-libs/tdb [#]
sys-libs/tevent [#]
sys-libs/ldb
net-misc/smbc