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From: "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Herd up for grabs: net-dialup
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2016 01:10:58
Message-Id: 569AEA17.9010700@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Herd up for grabs: net-dialup by Joshua Kinard
1 On 1/16/16 8:09 PM, Joshua Kinard wrote:
2 > On 01/16/2016 12:30, Michał Górny wrote:
3 >> Hello, everyone.
4 >>
5 >> The current maintainer(s) of net-dialup herd has decided that he's
6 >> (they're) not interested in keeping it and would like the packages
7 >> to be dropped to maintainer-needed.
8 >>
9 >> Is anyone interested in keeping the herd as-is and maintaining all
10 >> packages in it? If I get no reply till 2016-01-24, I will effectively
11 >> remove the herd and announce the packages that landed in maintainer-
12 >> -needed as a result.
13 >>
14 >> Packages currently in herd, along with their other maintainers:
15 >>
16 >> net-dialup/accel-ppp : pinkbyte@
17 >> net-dialup/capi4k-utils :
18 >> net-dialup/capidivert :
19 >> net-dialup/capifwd :
20 >> net-dialup/capisuite :
21 >> net-dialup/cistronradius :
22 >> net-dialup/cutecom :
23 >> net-dialup/dial :
24 >> net-dialup/diald :
25 >> net-dialup/drdsl :
26 >> net-dialup/dtrace : sbriesen@
27 >> net-dialup/dwun :
28 >> net-dialup/fbgetty :
29 >> net-dialup/fcpci :
30 >> net-dialup/freeradius :
31 >> net-dialup/freeradius-client :
32 >> net-dialup/globespan-adsl :
33 >> net-dialup/gnuradius :
34 >> net-dialup/gtkterm :
35 >> net-dialup/hcfpcimodem :
36 >> net-dialup/isdn-firmware :
37 >> net-dialup/itund :
38 >> net-dialup/kpnadsl4linux :
39 >> net-dialup/linux-atm :
40 >> net-dialup/lrzsz :
41 >> net-dialup/mgetty :
42 >> net-dialup/mingetty :
43 >> net-dialup/minicom :
44 >> net-dialup/mwavem :
45 >> net-dialup/picocom : flameeyes@
46 >> net-dialup/ppp :
47 >> net-dialup/pppconfig :
48 >> net-dialup/ppp-scripts :
49 >> net-dialup/pptpclient :
50 >> net-dialup/pptpd :
51 >> net-dialup/qtwvdialer :
52 >> net-dialup/radiusclient :
53 >> net-dialup/radiusclient-ng :
54 >> net-dialup/rp-l2tp :
55 >> net-dialup/rp-pppoe :
56 >> net-dialup/sendpage :
57 >> net-dialup/sercd :
58 >> net-dialup/speedtouch-usb :
59 >> net-dialup/tkvoice :
60 >> net-dialup/ueagle4-atm :
61 >> net-dialup/ueagle-atm :
62 >> net-dialup/wvdial :
63 >> net-dialup/xc :
64 >> net-dialup/xl2tpd : floppym@
65 >> net-dns/pdnsd : polynomial-c@
66 >> net-libs/libcapi :
67 >> net-libs/wvstreams :
68 >> net-misc/capiisdnmon :
69 >> net-misc/hylafaxplus : mattm@
70 >> net-misc/iaxmodem :
71 >> net-misc/termpkg :
72 >> www-apps/freeradius-dialupadmin :
73 >>
74 >
75 > I can look at taking over net-dialup/xc. It rarely gets updates anyways, as
76 > upstream never intended it to be used on Linux (Xenix and SCO OpenServer were
77 > the intended targets). Somehow, it works, but has quite a few QA issues
78 > (namely cavalier sprintf() usage with no buffer overflow checks). It's been on
79 > my TODO list to fix up one of these days, as well as adding the hard-to-find
80 > 5.x release.
81 >
82 > I've also played with hylafax and iaxmodem before, but no longer have setups to
83 > test those with.
84 >
85
86
87 If people take care of their own packages in that list, that would
88 really speed things up!
89
90 --
91 Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
92 Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened]
93 E-Mail : blueness@g.o
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