Re: [gentoo-user] Is it that hard to add a package, or am I doing wrong?

[YUE Daian]

On 2018-12-19 21:42, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 9:24 PM YUE Daian <sheepduke@×××××.com> wrote:
>>
>> Recently I posted a bug report to Gentoo Bugzilla and submitted a
>> request to add package Roswell into the package tree.
>>
>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/638446
>>
>> But...in fact it was not "recent" at all! I submitted the bug one year
>> ago and there is literally no news after some point.
>>
>> Is there anything I can do more?
>
> You can always host it in an overlay, or try submitting it to
> proxy-maintainers.  Volunteering to proxy-maintain the package would
> probably also help - that basically involves committing to keep it up
> to date and deal with bugs/etc.
>
> The obvious QA issue I could think of with putting this in the main
> repo is where it sticks its files and how well-behaved it is.  When it
> installs lisp packages does it keep them in some kind of tidy area
> that isn't going to step on the rest of the filesystem?
> Language-specific package managers can sometimes be messy in that way.
>

Roswell installs itself system-wide, then for each user it manipulates
local directory (by default $HOME/.roswell).

There is no global install afterwards so I suppose it should be fine.

But you are right. I should have posted the file list into my bug
report.

> My guess though is that this reflects a lack of interest in lisp more
> than any specific criticism.  If somebody had a criticism they'd have
> pointed it out.
>
> I didn't look at your package too closely but one little tweak you
> should make is something like:
>
> SRC_URI="https://github.com/roswell/roswell/archive/v${PV}.zip -> ${P}.zip"
>

Good point. I will change that.

> That makes it easier to maintain by renaming the package version
> number, and it also cleans up the filename in the distfiles cache (and
> on the mirrors).
>
> --
> Rich

Thank you Rich!