[gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs due bass retirement

[Ryan Hill]

On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:09:39 +0200
Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote:

> El lun, 19-03-2012 a las 21:20 -0600, Ryan Hill escribió:
> > On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:34:22 +0100
> > Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote:
> >
> > > El dom, 18-03-2012 a las 23:56 -0600, Ryan Hill escribió:
> > > > On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:25:58 +0100
> > > > Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Due his retirement the following packages need a new maintainer:
> > > >
> > > > > app-doc/ebookmerge
> > > >
> > > > This is something bass wrote that grabs html manuals from
> > > > http://htmlhelp.berlios.de (which doesn't exist anymore - it moved to
> > > > http://code.google.com/p/htmlhelp/).  I don't really see the usefulness of it
> > > > since almost all of the content is just html versions of standard info/man
> > > > pages.  Anyways, it's completely broken as-is.
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > I also though it could be treecleaned until I saw patches to fix that
> > > issues are included in:
> > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388927
> >
> > Okay, I suppose people do use it.  I'd like to start an app-doc herd (I think
> > vapier and me have half of app-doc/* covered anyways).  This would fit in
> > there.  In the meantime I'll take it.
> >
> >
>
> Any news on this herd creation? Looks like that package is still in
> maintainer-needed domain, for now I have fixed all his bugs I think, but
> better create that one for this and other packages that could benefit
> from active maintainers :)

Oops, forgot.  Added myself now.


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