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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Idea for a new project: gentoo-libs
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2018 07:38:09
Message-Id: 1529739476.21177.8.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Idea for a new project: gentoo-libs by "Marty E. Plummer"
1 W dniu sob, 23.06.2018 o godzinie 02∶30 -0500, użytkownik Marty E.
2 Plummer napisał:
3 > On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 09:22:00AM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
4 > > W dniu pią, 22.06.2018 o godzinie 21∶50 -0500, użytkownik Marty E.
5 > > Plummer napisał:
6 > > > So, as you may be aware I've been doing some work on moving bzip2 to an
7 > > > autotools based build. Recently I've ran into app-crypt/mhash, which is
8 > > > in a semi-abandoned state (talking with the maintainer on twitter atm),
9 > > > and I was thinking it may be a good idea to set up a project for keeping
10 > > > these semi-abandoned and really-abandoned libraries and projects up to
11 > > > date and such.
12 > > >
13 > > > Basically, an upstream for packages who's upstream is either
14 > > > uncontactable or is otherwise not accepting bug fixes and patches. So
15 > > > far I can only think of app-crypt/mhash and app-arch/bzip2 but I'm sure
16 > > > there are others in this state.
17 > > >
18 > >
19 > > So in order to fix problem of semi-abandoned packages, you're creating
20 > > an indirect herd-like entity that will soon be semi-abandoned itself
21 > > because people will be dumping random packages into it and afterwards
22 > > nobody will claim responsibility for them.
23 > >
24 > > --
25 > > Best regards,
26 > > Michał Górny
27 >
28 > No, I mean for packages which are important enough in gentoo to warrant
29 > such treatment. For instance, every email I've tried for bzip2's
30 > upstream bounced or recieved no reply. That, I assume, is important
31 > enough to actually maintain and improve. Any other library which may be
32 > as important which are as inactive would be added.
33
34 Sounds like you're going to take over half of base-system ;-).
35
36 I really prefer having single dedicated individuals for that kind of
37 stuff. Projects just blur the responsibility.
38
39 --
40 Best regards,
41 Michał Górny

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