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On 23.06.2018 05:50, Marty E. Plummer wrote: |
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> So, as you may be aware I've been doing some work on moving bzip2 to an |
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> autotools based build. Recently I've ran into app-crypt/mhash, which is |
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> in a semi-abandoned state (talking with the maintainer on twitter atm), |
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> and I was thinking it may be a good idea to set up a project for keeping |
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> these semi-abandoned and really-abandoned libraries and projects up to |
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> date and such. |
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But how would it serve gentoo itself? Lots of packages in the distro |
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have dead upstream but still work. |
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Why would you want to make gentoo an upstream area rather than moving a |
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dead project itself, say, |
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to github and do the job there? |
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> Basically, an upstream for packages who's upstream is either |
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> uncontactable or is otherwise not accepting bug fixes and patches. So |
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> far I can only think of app-crypt/mhash and app-arch/bzip2 but I'm sure |
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> there are others in this state. |
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