From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 01424138334 for ; Sat, 23 Jun 2018 07:22:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 50D15E08C4; Sat, 23 Jun 2018 07:22:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C9A2BE0878 for ; Sat, 23 Jun 2018 07:22:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pomiot (d202-252.icpnet.pl [109.173.202.252]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mgorny) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C2370335C8B; Sat, 23 Jun 2018 07:22:04 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <1529738520.21177.5.camel@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Idea for a new project: gentoo-libs From: =?UTF-8?Q?Micha=C5=82_G=C3=B3rny?= To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2018 09:22:00 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20180623025046.djmsv44moxuqkv6t@proprietary-killer> References: <20180623025046.djmsv44moxuqkv6t@proprietary-killer> Organization: Gentoo Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha512"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-1cpatxSj+aO8b3vHeGbN" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.24.6 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Archives-Salt: 2c1eebfe-b56c-4548-b4ed-e5d5544763a6 X-Archives-Hash: 382bdc090d23a74724960385b1d0b78a --=-1cpatxSj+aO8b3vHeGbN Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable W dniu pi=C4=85, 22.06.2018 o godzinie 21=E2=88=B650=E2=80=89-0500, u=C5=BC= ytkownik Marty E. Plummer napisa=C5=82: > So, as you may be aware I've been doing some work on moving bzip2 to an > autotools based build. Recently I've ran into app-crypt/mhash, which is > in a semi-abandoned state (talking with the maintainer on twitter atm), > and I was thinking it may be a good idea to set up a project for keeping > these semi-abandoned and really-abandoned libraries and projects up to > date and such. >=20 > Basically, an upstream for packages who's upstream is either > uncontactable or is otherwise not accepting bug fixes and patches. So > far I can only think of app-crypt/mhash and app-arch/bzip2 but I'm sure > there are others in this state. >=20 So in order to fix problem of semi-abandoned packages, you're creating an indirect herd-like entity that will soon be semi-abandoned itself because people will be dumping random packages into it and afterwards nobody will claim responsibility for them. --=20 Best regards, Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny --=-1cpatxSj+aO8b3vHeGbN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQKTBAABCgB9FiEEbbsHzE8NrQbqCv5BsHoa6u+0Rk4FAlst9RhfFIAAAAAALgAo aXNzdWVyLWZwckBub3RhdGlvbnMub3BlbnBncC5maWZ0aGhvcnNlbWFuLm5ldDZE QkIwN0NDNEYwREFEMDZFQTBBRkU0MUIwN0ExQUVBRUZCNDQ2NEUACgkQsHoa6u+0 Rk6r8BAAgqHVsPTZcXKLrpSAvW60j37gk39v1ojGhVJyKp/c3xyf9jeqzMuKqenN c8188hwJAz8+RLbtUihYecyIiQy/+YgQ0pFOikno96vBeeysTJ4JHJ7dOoqsGdXd /aksowtFTykAuL+wmTJnP1KFlULBEJVak1GLd82xRE8LZ8vbxnEIlzaZ7zv9Ih9B +6KHuT0rqbwHGLab5ls3A6Hkw66NAOJjf3GnYyRpv10C/fBZtLg6afJHMDbSXo8k gebT0gPRyHXP5s6fgGMlxFq/kFc7pvWwXhnx+yU+JmD0eyXthpGfEapi1ml/RE7Z LDxuZGMUxUtyNYQ1o2xnux+wSbdSo7G2VpDYRqUAsfV1YFj1T/Rh5FQxJQQo9jIh UZc821WH4vCtrxeR6+cH1SLXeD/SROjEdwDLH+snDcvqx0V/EER0RL/xYmSA2huv myI/WBYYYsYXG1G6EsRy8knKzkAbaQ9Lr2E3A69yC4Z0x/fixK/xhi1XKKQKpjay +Za3OW1nRhExvSeUHZ5UIr5wvJ55YFx7RVf6kM9LmodmncBcwWWy1pSz1VfYS2tU dvL/d8aycCXwhkpi/pQ7qqQLT8BuZnjU3fASDRM/XXLbXEY/MpXx6oBz4K7z7Kh0 VTuy4nTw3Y5EpBmOSo7+yMNrOjumry3bL1DkOZs0v3fM5XYbvw0= =0Z9y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-1cpatxSj+aO8b3vHeGbN--