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From: Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages maintained by trapni need a co-maintainer
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 15:31:03
Message-Id: 20120414122944.27e3b7d9@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages maintained by trapni need a co-maintainer by Samuli Suominen
1 On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 14:36:48 +0300
2 Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On 04/14/2012 02:31 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
5 > > El sáb, 14-04-2012 a las 14:24 +0300, Samuli Suominen escribió:
6 > >> On 04/14/2012 02:16 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
7 > >>> Due long devaway, his packages need a co-maintainer, feel free to
8 > >>> add to metadata if you want. Thanks:
9 > >>> dev-util/ciabot-svn
10 > >>> media-sound/teamspeak-client-bin
11 > >>> media-sound/teamspeak-server-bin
12 > >>> sys-apps/newrelic-sysmond
13 > >>>
14 > >>
15 > >> I believe it's time to lastrite teamspeak* because they link
16 > >> against mysql libraries with SONAME we don't ship anymore
17 > >> Therefore rendering the packages useless
18 > >>
19 > >> - Samuli
20 > >>
21 > >>
22 > >
23 > > Fine with me if nobody wants to take care of that package and
24 > > fixing it soon
25 >
26 > I'm not sure if it's possible to fix them because symlinking the old
27 > SONAME to new one doesn't do the trick.
28 >
29 > Rebuilding is not an option because they are binary-only.
30 >
31 > Unless someone grabs a HEX editor or something and edits the binaries
32 > directly ... good luck with that
33
34 if that's just a soname problem an not an actual abi problem (heh,
35 soname may have changed for a reason), then dev-java/diablo-jdk has
36 been doing this for years and you can probably use the same kind of
37 code.
38
39
40 A.