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On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 09:53:43PM +0000, Peter Stuge wrote: |
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> John Helmert III wrote: |
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> > > Jonas Stein wrote: |
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> > > > # Dead upstream |
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> > > > # Removal after 2023-01-01. Bug #881249. |
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> > > > net-mail/vchkuser |
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> > > Was there an actual issue with the package that prompted you to do |
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> > > this - something that a package maintainer should have resolved? |
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> > > I think it's a bad idea to remove a package if "Upstream Homepage and |
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> > > SRC_URI is gone" and "Gentoo is the last distro with this package" |
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> > > are the only reasons... |
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> > Do you use it? Is it still functional? |
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> I don't use it, I use something else for the same task. |
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> Looking up the GitHub user that person seems present, just that |
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> particular repo is no longer there. |
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> Searching for the repo name on GitHub finds this however: |
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> https://github.com/bdrewery/vchkuser |
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> ..which seems to be a 2010 version of the code. I did a test, it works |
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> fine. Maybe just change the SRC_URI. |
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Can you produce a guarantee that the code there is equal to the code |
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which the ebuild currently refers to? Or maybe that it's equivalent to |
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the now-removed repository? |
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> //Peter |
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