Re: [gentoo-dev] What is the source for https://dev.gentoo.org/~hollow/distfiles/genqmail-*

[Michał Górny]

On Thu, 2019-10-10 at 12:31 +0200, Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 10. Oktober 2019, 12:15:09 CEST schrieb Michał Górny:
> > Dnia October 10, 2019 9:39:38 AM UTC, Rolf Eike Beer <eike@×××××××.de>
> napisał(a):
> > > Am Samstag, 21. September 2019, 10:50:07 CEST schrieb Rolf Eike Beer:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I'm planning to do some cleanups to the qmail stuff. One thing s that the
> > > > genqmail tarball is from 20080406 and needs to be patched itself, which
> > > > makes things complicated. So, does anyone know what was the source of
> > > > these tarballs? I can't look into the directory, maybe there are even
> > > > older ones?
> > > > Otherwise I would propose to just start a new git repo for that and do a
> > > > new snapshot with the patches already incorporated.
> > >
> > > So I guess noone knows. Can someone assist me in creating a new upstream? I
> > > have created a new git repository with the original tarball and the 2
> > > existing patches, which can be found here:
> > > https://github.com/DerDakon/genqmail
> > >
> > > Please pick this up and move it somewhere into Gentoo git infrastructure. I
> > > can transfer ownership to the Github Gentoo organization if you would like.
> > > Afterwards I just need someone to push the button and create a new snapshot
> > > from that (preferably together with a git tag).
> >
> > Is there really a reason to do that? Since you're maintaining it, just keep
> > it on your gh.
>
> I just want to prevent that the same thing happens again.
>

I don't see a difference between a stale repo on your GitHub account
and a stale repo on Gentoo Infra.  Except the former is easy to fork,
and the latter we have in dozens, and nobody knows what to do with them.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny