Re: [gentoo-dev] Idea for a new project: gentoo-libs

[Alec Warner]

On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 3:30 AM, Marty E. Plummer <hanetzer@×××××××××.com>
wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 09:22:00AM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
> > W dniu pią, 22.06.2018 o godzinie 21∶50 -0500, użytkownik Marty E.
> > Plummer napisał:
> > > So, as you may be aware I've been doing some work on moving bzip2 to an
> > > autotools based build. Recently I've ran into app-crypt/mhash, which is
> > > in a semi-abandoned state (talking with the maintainer on twitter atm),
> > > and I was thinking it may be a good idea to set up a project for
> keeping
> > > these semi-abandoned and really-abandoned libraries and projects up to
> > > date and such.
> > >
> > > Basically, an upstream for packages who's upstream is either
> > > uncontactable or is otherwise not accepting bug fixes and patches. So
> > > far I can only think of app-crypt/mhash and app-arch/bzip2 but I'm sure
> > > there are others in this state.
> > >
> >
> > So in order to fix problem of semi-abandoned packages, you're creating
> > an indirect herd-like entity that will soon be semi-abandoned itself
> > because people will be dumping random packages into it and afterwards
> > nobody will claim responsibility for them.
> >
> > --
> > Best regards,
> > Michał Górny
>
> No, I mean for packages which are important enough in gentoo to warrant
> such treatment. For instance, every email I've tried for bzip2's
> upstream bounced or recieved no reply. That, I assume, is important
> enough to actually maintain and improve. Any other library which may be
> as important which are as inactive would be added.
>
>
I suspect this might be better done in the Linux foundation itself as they
have staffing for core components that everyone is using.

-A