Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] tools-portage packages

[Alec Warner]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Christian Ruppert <idl0r@g.o> wrote:
> On 07/17/12 at 03:48PM -0500, Paul Varner wrote:
>> All:
>>
>> (Apologies if you get this twice.  I never saw my initial send of the
>> message hit the mailing list)
>>
>> Sending this here before I send to the gentoo-dev list.  Below is the
>> list of packages that are managed by the tools-portage herd and their
>> maintainer (if any).  I know we have several packages in the herd that
>> are not being maintained and I would like to either get a maintainer or
>> last rite the package.  I've included comments on what I know about the
>> packages.
>>
>> $ equery meta -m $(fgrep "tools-portage" /usr/portage/*/*/metadata.xml |
>> awk -F'/' '{printf("%s/%s\n", $4, $5)}')
>>
>> * app-portage/deltup [gentoo]
>> None specified
>>
>> -- I don't know anything about this package.
>>
>> * app-portage/eclass-manpages [gentoo]
>> vapier@g.o
>>
>> -- Actively maintained by Mike.
>>
>> * app-portage/elogv [gentoo]
>> fuzzyray@g.o (Paul Varner)
>> sping@g.o (Sebastian Pipping)
>>
>> -- Being maintained more by Sebastian than myself.
>>
>> * app-portage/elogviewer [gentoo]
>> fuzzyray@g.o (Paul Varner)
>>
>> -- Effectively unmaintained, I can't find the upstream repository and I
>> haven't done anything with it recently.
>>
>> * app-portage/epm [gentoo]
>> None specified
>>
>> -- Old perl script that mimics rpm.  I've done some ebuild cleanup, but
>> otherwise unmaintained.
>>
>> * app-portage/esearch [gentoo]
>> None specified
>>
>> -- Actively maintained by myself and Brian.  Upstream repository is on
>> Github
>>
>> * app-portage/etc-proposals [gentoo]
>> dolsen@g.o (Brian Dolbec)
>>
>> -- Actively maintained by Brian
>>
>> * app-portage/euses [gentoo]
>> jer@g.o (Jeroen Roovers)
>>
>> -- Actively maintained by Jeroen
>>
>> * app-portage/genlop [gentoo]
>> None specified
>>
>> -- Not actively being maintained although fixes have been made in the
>> upstream gentoo-perl repository on Github. it might be appropriate to
>> transfer this to the gentoo-perl herd.
>>
>> * app-portage/gentoolkit-dev [gentoo]
>> None specified
>>
>> -- Actively maintained by Christian.
>
> I'll keep maintaining it so far, mostly echangelog.
>
>>
>> * app-portage/gentoolkit [gentoo]
>> None specified
>>
>> -- Actively maintained by Paul and Brian
>>
>> * app-portage/gpytage [gentoo]
>> dolsen@g.o (Brian Dolbec)
>>
>> -- Brian took over maintenance. Not sure of active status
>>
>> * app-portage/layman [gentoo]
>> dolsen@g.o (Brian Dolbec)
>>
>> -- Brian is actively maintaining
>>
>> * app-portage/maintainer-helper [local]
>> None specified
>>
>> -- Not actively maintained, it really needs a maintainer or be dropped
>> from the tree.
>>
>> * app-portage/mirrorselect [gentoo]
>> None specified
>>
>> -- Actively maintained by various people.
>
> I guess I will still try to fix bugs (mostly major ones) when there are some.

I will fix bugs in the script if someone does the ebuild work or proxies for me.

-A

>
>>
>> * app-portage/porthole [gentoo]
>> dolsen@g.o (Brian Dolbec)
>> Upstream Maintainer (please CC on bugs)
>>
>> -- Actively maintained by Brian
>>
>> * app-portage/splat [gentoo]
>> None specified
>>
>> -- I don't know anything about this package.  Upstream URL is dead.
>>
>> * app-portage/udept [local]
>> fuzzyray@g.o
>>
>> -- Effectively last rited, due to dead upstream.  Still in tree in hard
>> masked status due to no replacement.  However, in the time that it has
>> been hard masked, there has not been anyone to step up and either fork
>> or create a replacement.
>>
>> * app-portage/ufed [gentoo]
>> None specified
>>
>> -- Not being maintained since Harald retired and needs a maintainer.
>> Repository is on overlays.g.o
>>
>> * dev-util/bdelta [gentoo]
>> slyfox@g.o (Sergei Trofimovich)
>> Primary Maintainer
>>
>> -- I don't know anything about this package.  Based on the ChangeLog,
>> Sergei is actively maintaining it.
>>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Christian Ruppert
> Gentoo Linux developer, Bugzilla administrator and Infrastructure member
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