[gentoo-user] Re: package deletions

[James]

Michael Orlitzky <mjo <at> gentoo.org> writes:


> Personally I would prefer a bug, but the proxy-maintainers page says
> that you should contact them directly. Either proxy-maint <at> gentoo.org
> or on IRC in #gentoo-proxy-maint.

OK, I'll drop them an email.


> Here's the list I hacked together.

Thanks:: snip

There have been many posts, here is what I'm going to send the
the proxy maintainers (not all from your filtered list) ::

dansguardian, gspeakers and showconsole may all
need to not only have a maintainer, but a fork is under consideration.
I hope suse's showconsole is actually a "rebranded" version of netconsole,
research needed on that one.

I also found  'net-fs/tahoe-lafs' quite intriguing so I'm a wee bit
uncertain as to  why this one is not being pick up? I need to read
up on it and test it a bit to learn more about tahoe-lafs.


Best way forward? So for now I just copy the contents of
/usr/portage/categroy/package into /usr/local/portage/category/package and
include
the relevant sources from /usr/portage/distfiles also under
/usr/local/portage. Any other relevant file to grab up before hatchet time?

Note:: I'm still working on my 'git_hub_kungfu' so I like to do old school
work on sources and such. Please point me to a 'cook book' approach on
gentoo-wiki-github instructions for the takeover of soon to be axed
packages, if it exists; maybe as an appendix to the dev-manual so folks with
insufficient current knowledge have a pathway forward?

Thanks for all your advice Michael. If this process is made easy and
documented, maybe others will show some interests in adopting a few
packages, particularly from the maintainer-needed listings.


James