[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due iluxa retirement

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due iluxa retirement

[Pacho Ramos]

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Due his retirement the following packages need a new maintainer:
dev-cpp/cppserv


Thanks for taking them




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Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due iluxa retirement

[Samuli Suominen]

On 03/18/2012 08:15 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> Due his retirement the following packages need a new maintainer:
> dev-cpp/cppserv
>
>
> Thanks for taking them
>
>
>

dev-cpp/cppserv would need working dev-cpp/sptk and we have none:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402149#c9

the only working versions got marked as "obsolete" by upstream due to 
"undisclosed reasons" whatever that means

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due iluxa retirement

[David Leverton]

On 19 March 2012 06:05, Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org> wrote:
> dev-cpp/cppserv would need working dev-cpp/sptk and we have none:
>
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402149#c9
>
> the only working versions got marked as "obsolete" by upstream due to
> "undisclosed reasons" whatever that means
>

Not that I personally care, but it seems like this could be "solved"
by just removing fltk support, rather than nuking it completely.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due iluxa retirement

[Samuli Suominen]

On 03/19/2012 11:00 PM, David Leverton wrote:
> On 19 March 2012 06:05, Samuli Suominen<ssuominen@gentoo.org>  wrote:
>> dev-cpp/cppserv would need working dev-cpp/sptk and we have none:
>>
>> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402149#c9
>>
>> the only working versions got marked as "obsolete" by upstream due to
>> "undisclosed reasons" whatever that means
>>
>
> Not that I personally care, but it seems like this could be "solved"
> by just removing fltk support, rather than nuking it completely.
>

don't think we should be "clinging on" the unmaintained packages that badly
from general overview of the sptk homepage, the whole point of the 
package seems to be around fltk (and thus, X)

and from broader view... sometimes it seems the politics around package 
removal has become a burden, rather than a tool

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due iluxa retirement

[Alec Warner]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 03/19/2012 11:00 PM, David Leverton wrote:
>>
>> On 19 March 2012 06:05, Samuli Suominen<ssuominen@gentoo.org>  wrote:
>>>
>>> dev-cpp/cppserv would need working dev-cpp/sptk and we have none:
>>>
>>> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402149#c9
>>>
>>> the only working versions got marked as "obsolete" by upstream due to
>>> "undisclosed reasons" whatever that means
>>>
>>
>> Not that I personally care, but it seems like this could be "solved"
>> by just removing fltk support, rather than nuking it completely.
>>
>
> don't think we should be "clinging on" the unmaintained packages that badly
> from general overview of the sptk homepage, the whole point of the package
> seems to be around fltk (and thus, X)
>
> and from broader view... sometimes it seems the politics around package
> removal has become a burden, rather than a tool
>

What politics?

-A