From: Alexe Stefan <stefanalexe48@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites: sys-fs/eudev
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2023 00:51:59 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAENw6g449KiHs2=SfphpM-QKJqczD2tHx9oZzwLuWfvKVHiEnQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11478542-782d-49af-36e3-d02d117f45da@asokolov.org>
Must eudev be 100% compatible with all the garbage that gets shoved
into udev to stay in ::gentoo? I don't see mdev being held to that
standard.
On 9/12/23, Alexey Sokolov <alexey+gentoo@asokolov.org> wrote:
> 11.09.2023 22:35, Sam James пишет:
>>
>> Alexey Sokolov <alexey+gentoo@asokolov.org> writes:
>>
>>> 11.09.2023 22:21, Sam James пишет:
>>>> orbea <orbea@riseup.net> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 21:31:30 +0100
>>>>> Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> orbea wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 17:29:47 +0200
>>>>>>>> "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Am Montag, 11. September 2023, 17:22:43 CEST schrieb orbea:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Upstream is maintained still.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> https://github.com/eudev-project/eudev
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> No, it's not.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Based on what? It has several commits this year and is currently
>>>>>>>> working on both of my systems. Is there something specific showing
>>>>>>>> why its not maintained?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> .
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On the link above it says this:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 2021-08-20 Gentoo decided to abandon eudev and a new project was
>>>>>>> established on 2021-09-14 by Alpine, Devuan and Gentoo contributors
>>>>>>> (alphabetical order).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It seems to have a upstream that is active but no one is
>>>>>>> maintaining it on Gentoo. Basically, it needs a Gentoo maintainer
>>>>>>> now. It would seem given the time span that no one wants to take
>>>>>>> it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Like others, I use it but didn't know it wasn't maintained anymore.
>>>>>>> I hope someone will step up but if not, looks like we have to use
>>>>>>> udev.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> No, see the linked bugs. Someone has to actually make it compatible
>>>>>> with the tags API which software is starting to use.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think its only a matter of time.
>>>>>
>>>>> https://github.com/eudev-project/eudev/pull/253
>>>>>
>>>>> I'll apply the patch and test the builds if it helps, but I don't know
>>>>> about testing the runtime functionality of libgudev.
>>>> Someone has to then bother reviewing it, merging it, releasing it,
>>>> and
>>>> ideally updating eudev for other stuff like this.
>>>
>>> Of course. Just like any other PR to any other project :) What's your
>>> point?
>>
>> I don't know what you mean. My point is none of that has been happening.
>>
>
> I see, ok. I would agree with you, however, the author of that PR is a
> member of eudev org, so I wouldn't say it's dead just yet.
>
>>>
>>>> Also note that the PR is a hack rather than a full implementation
>>>> of the functionality anyway, which may lead to runtime misbehaviour.
>>>
>>> And that's fine for programs which don't make use of the new API.
>>>
>>
>> and? Someone has to actually check that?
>>
>>
>>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Alexey "DarthGandalf" Sokolov
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-09-11 21:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 121+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-09-11 15:14 [gentoo-dev] last rites: sys-fs/eudev Andreas K. Huettel
2023-09-11 15:22 ` orbea
2023-09-11 15:29 ` Andreas K. Huettel
2023-09-11 15:42 ` orbea
2023-09-11 17:25 ` martin-kokos
2023-09-11 17:45 ` orbea
2023-09-11 19:20 ` Dale
2023-09-11 20:31 ` Sam James
2023-09-11 21:14 ` orbea
2023-09-11 21:21 ` Sam James
2023-09-11 21:29 ` Alexey Sokolov
2023-09-11 21:35 ` Sam James
2023-09-11 21:43 ` Alexey Sokolov
2023-09-11 21:51 ` Alexe Stefan [this message]
2023-09-11 21:59 ` Sam James
2023-09-11 21:32 ` orbea
2023-09-11 21:50 ` Sam James
2023-09-11 22:10 ` orbea
2023-09-11 22:17 ` Sam James
2023-09-12 2:34 ` orbea
2023-09-12 9:18 ` Rich Freeman
2023-09-12 11:00 ` Alarig Le Lay
2023-09-14 0:20 ` [gentoo-dev] " Madhu
2023-09-14 0:47 ` Alex Boag-Munroe
2023-09-14 14:25 ` Arsen Arsenović
2023-09-14 14:57 ` Mike Gilbert
2023-09-14 18:15 ` Arsen Arsenović
2023-09-11 21:27 ` [gentoo-dev] " Eddie Chapman
2023-09-11 21:41 ` Sam James
2023-09-11 22:22 ` Eddie Chapman
2023-09-11 22:27 ` Sam James
2023-09-12 13:36 ` Eddie Chapman
2023-09-12 13:57 ` Sam James
2023-09-12 14:12 ` Rich Freeman
2023-09-12 14:17 ` Sam James
2023-09-12 15:04 ` Eddie Chapman
2023-09-12 18:47 ` Matt Turner
2023-09-12 15:35 ` orbea
2023-09-12 17:23 ` Alexe Stefan
2023-09-12 17:36 ` orbea
2023-09-12 19:06 ` Eddie Chapman
2023-09-12 19:32 ` orbea
2023-09-12 18:53 ` Matt Turner
2023-09-12 18:58 ` Alexe Stefan
2023-09-12 23:45 ` karl
2023-09-12 18:51 ` Matt Turner
2023-09-12 19:05 ` orbea
2023-09-12 19:56 ` Eli Schwartz
2023-09-12 20:59 ` Dale
2023-09-12 20:37 ` Matt Turner
2023-09-12 14:55 ` Eddie Chapman
2023-09-12 15:00 ` Sam James
2023-09-12 19:21 ` Andreas K. Huettel
2023-09-12 19:47 ` Eddie Chapman
2023-09-12 20:33 ` Andrew Ammerlaan
2023-09-12 21:23 ` Eddie Chapman
2023-09-12 21:36 ` Matt Turner
2023-09-12 21:45 ` Alexe Stefan
2023-09-12 21:52 ` Matt Turner
2023-09-13 4:35 ` Alexe Stefan
2023-09-13 4:56 ` Eli Schwartz
2023-09-13 5:03 ` Alexe Stefan
2023-09-13 5:38 ` Eli Schwartz
2023-09-13 6:13 ` Alexe Stefan
2023-09-13 6:19 ` Alexe Stefan
2023-09-13 6:40 ` Dale
2023-09-13 6:54 ` Alexe Stefan
2023-09-13 7:23 ` Dale
2023-09-12 22:35 ` Eddie Chapman
2023-09-13 7:55 ` Andrew Ammerlaan
2023-09-13 8:10 ` Dale
2023-09-16 6:01 ` Oskari Pirhonen
2023-09-16 6:09 ` Sam James
2023-09-16 7:15 ` Dale
2023-09-13 8:13 ` Arve Barsnes
2023-09-13 23:49 ` Eddie Chapman
2023-09-14 14:16 ` Eddie Chapman
2023-09-14 14:44 ` Alex Boag-Munroe
2023-09-14 15:30 ` Eddie Chapman
2023-09-14 16:09 ` Alex Boag-Munroe
2023-09-14 16:50 ` Eddie Chapman
2023-09-14 17:18 ` Alex Boag-Munroe
2023-09-14 18:39 ` Alexe Stefan
2023-09-14 19:11 ` Alex Boag-Munroe
2023-09-14 17:27 ` Rich Freeman
2023-09-14 17:39 ` Eddie Chapman
2023-09-14 17:52 ` Alex Boag-Munroe
2023-09-14 17:57 ` Rich Freeman
2023-09-14 23:19 ` Arsen Arsenović
2023-09-15 15:10 ` orbea
2023-09-15 18:38 ` Alexey Sokolov
2023-09-15 18:56 ` orbea
2023-09-15 22:25 ` Arsen Arsenović
2023-09-15 22:40 ` orbea
2023-09-16 1:12 ` Arsen Arsenović
2023-09-16 9:35 ` David Seifert
2023-09-16 13:32 ` Alexe Stefan
2023-09-16 22:03 ` Arsen Arsenović
2023-09-17 9:00 ` Alexe Stefan
2023-09-17 10:16 ` Arsen Arsenović
2023-09-17 17:56 ` Alexe Stefan
2023-09-17 18:38 ` Arsen Arsenović
2023-09-14 17:20 ` Eddie Chapman
2023-09-14 17:28 ` Alex Boag-Munroe
2023-09-14 17:51 ` Eddie Chapman
2023-09-14 17:19 ` Matt Turner
2023-09-14 17:24 ` Eddie Chapman
2023-09-13 2:55 ` Eli Schwartz
2023-09-13 9:05 ` Eddie Chapman
2023-09-13 9:34 ` Alexe Stefan
2023-09-13 9:43 ` Alex Boag-Munroe
2023-09-13 21:57 ` Arsen Arsenović
2023-09-12 14:31 ` martin-kokos
2023-09-12 15:00 ` Eddie Chapman
2023-09-12 15:20 ` Sam James
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2023-09-13 1:23 Alex Boag-Munroe
2023-09-13 1:48 ` Alex Boag-Munroe
2021-11-27 0:23 [gentoo-dev] Last " Mike Gilbert
2022-08-30 9:52 ` Jaco Kroon
2022-08-30 10:27 ` Arve Barsnes
2022-08-30 12:26 ` Jaco Kroon
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