[gentoo-dev] sci-geosciences/googleearth is orphan and needs a dedicated maintainer

[gentoo-dev] sci-geosciences/googleearth is orphan and needs a dedicated maintainer

[Pacho Ramos]

Currently, there is no really working version of it in the tree:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=494624

But due its bumps and current bugs, this needs a maintainer... 
otherwise, I would treeclean it (the problem is that looks like some
people use it, but without none of them willing to maintain it, it will
be difficult to handle :( )

Re: [gentoo-dev] sci-geosciences/googleearth is orphan and needs a dedicated maintainer

[Marc Schiffbauer]

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* Pacho Ramos schrieb am 29.01.14 um 07:58 Uhr:
>Currently, there is no really working version of it in the tree:
>https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=494624
>
>But due its bumps and current bugs, this needs a maintainer...
>otherwise, I would treeclean it (the problem is that looks like some
>people use it, but without none of them willing to maintain it, it will
>be difficult to handle :( )
>
>

I would help taking care of it, as I use it sometimes.

How oftes does this need to be bumped?


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Re: [gentoo-dev] sci-geosciences/googleearth is orphan and needs a dedicated maintainer

[Pacho Ramos]

El jue, 30-01-2014 a las 13:47 +0100, Marc Schiffbauer escribió:
> * Pacho Ramos schrieb am 29.01.14 um 07:58 Uhr:
> >Currently, there is no really working version of it in the tree:
> >https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=494624
> >
> >But due its bumps and current bugs, this needs a maintainer...
> >otherwise, I would treeclean it (the problem is that looks like some
> >people use it, but without none of them willing to maintain it, it will
> >be difficult to handle :( )
> >
> >
> 
> I would help taking care of it, as I use it sometimes.
> 
> How oftes does this need to be bumped?
> 
> 

I am not sure :(, I am not too familiar with it since it never worked ok
on my machines 

Re: [gentoo-dev] sci-geosciences/googleearth is orphan and needs a dedicated maintainer

[Mike Gilbert]

On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> wrote:
> El jue, 30-01-2014 a las 13:47 +0100, Marc Schiffbauer escribió:
>> * Pacho Ramos schrieb am 29.01.14 um 07:58 Uhr:
>> >Currently, there is no really working version of it in the tree:
>> >https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=494624
>> >
>> >But due its bumps and current bugs, this needs a maintainer...
>> >otherwise, I would treeclean it (the problem is that looks like some
>> >people use it, but without none of them willing to maintain it, it will
>> >be difficult to handle :( )
>> >
>> >
>>
>> I would help taking care of it, as I use it sometimes.
>>
>> How oftes does this need to be bumped?
>>
>>
>
> I am not sure :(, I am not too familiar with it since it never worked ok
> on my machines
>

I do a lot of version bumping on google-chrome, and I have a script
that automates the process for me. If anyone is interested in
maintaining googleearth in a similar manner, you might find my script
useful.

http://dev.gentoo.org/~floppym/chrome-bump

Re: [gentoo-dev] sci-geosciences/googleearth is orphan and needs a dedicated maintainer

[Tom Wijsman]

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On Thu, 30 Jan 2014 13:47:27 +0100
Marc Schiffbauer <mschiff@gentoo.org> wrote:

> * Pacho Ramos schrieb am 29.01.14 um 07:58 Uhr:
> >Currently, there is no really working version of it in the tree:
> >https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=494624
> >
> >But due its bumps and current bugs, this needs a maintainer...
> >otherwise, I would treeclean it (the problem is that looks like some
> >people use it, but without none of them willing to maintain it, it
> >will be difficult to handle :( )
> >
> >
> 
> I would help taking care of it, as I use it sometimes.
> 
> How oftes does this need to be bumped?

Check the ChangeLog (`grep '^*' ChangeLog`):

    *googleearth-7.1.1.1888 (18 Aug 2013)
    *googleearth-7.1.1.1871 (01 Jul 2013)
    *googleearth-7.1.1.1580 (19 May 2013)
    *googleearth-7.0.3.8542 (02 Mar 2013)
    *googleearth-7.0.2.8415-r2 (10 Feb 2013)
    *googleearth-7.0.2.8415-r1 (04 Feb 2013)
    *googleearth-7.0.2.8415 (02 Feb 2013)
    *googleearth-6.2.2.6613 (05 May 2012)
    *googleearth-6.2.1.6014-r1 (02 Mar 2012)
    *googleearth-6.2.1.6014 (01 Mar 2012)
    *googleearth-6.0.3.2197 (24 May 2011)
    *googleearth-6.0.2.2074 (02 Apr 2011)
    *googleearth-6.0.1.2032_beta (31 Jan 2011)

Looks reasonable.

The tricky thing with this package (not sure whether it has improved
over the last year) is that there are bundled libraries; and depending
on how you handle (or don't handle) them, it can lead to breakages. Due
to a binary nature, this is often something you can't resolve yourself;
iotw, this means you'll need to check up with upstream to fix these.

Besides that, there is also RESTRICT="mirror"; so, you are restricted
to providing the versions upstream provides (eg. in case you want to
mask newer versions until a bug is resolved).

-- 
With kind regards,

Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
Gentoo Developer

E-mail address  : TomWij@gentoo.org
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Re: [gentoo-dev] sci-geosciences/googleearth is orphan and needs a dedicated maintainer

[Marc Schiffbauer]

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* Mike Gilbert schrieb am 30.01.14 um 23:02 Uhr:
>On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> El jue, 30-01-2014 a las 13:47 +0100, Marc Schiffbauer escribió:
>>> * Pacho Ramos schrieb am 29.01.14 um 07:58 Uhr:
>>> >Currently, there is no really working version of it in the tree:
>>> >https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=494624
>>> >
>>> >But due its bumps and current bugs, this needs a maintainer...
>>> >otherwise, I would treeclean it (the problem is that looks like some
>>> >people use it, but without none of them willing to maintain it, it will
>>> >be difficult to handle :( )
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>> I would help taking care of it, as I use it sometimes.
>>>
>>> How oftes does this need to be bumped?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I am not sure :(, I am not too familiar with it since it never worked ok
>> on my machines
>>
>
>I do a lot of version bumping on google-chrome, and I have a script
>that automates the process for me. If anyone is interested in
>maintaining googleearth in a similar manner, you might find my script
>useful.
>
>http://dev.gentoo.org/~floppym/chrome-bump
>

Thanks, I will have a look!

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Re: [gentoo-dev] sci-geosciences/googleearth is orphan and needs a dedicated maintainer

[Marc Schiffbauer]

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* Tom Wijsman schrieb am 31.01.14 um 00:52 Uhr:
>On Thu, 30 Jan 2014 13:47:27 +0100
>Marc Schiffbauer <mschiff@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
>> * Pacho Ramos schrieb am 29.01.14 um 07:58 Uhr:
>> >Currently, there is no really working version of it in the tree:
>> >https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=494624
>> >
>> >But due its bumps and current bugs, this needs a maintainer...
>> >otherwise, I would treeclean it (the problem is that looks like some
>> >people use it, but without none of them willing to maintain it, it
>> >will be difficult to handle :( )
>> >
>> >
>>
>> I would help taking care of it, as I use it sometimes.
>>
>> How oftes does this need to be bumped?
>
>Check the ChangeLog (`grep '^*' ChangeLog`):
>
>    *googleearth-7.1.1.1888 (18 Aug 2013)
>    *googleearth-7.1.1.1871 (01 Jul 2013)
>    *googleearth-7.1.1.1580 (19 May 2013)
>    *googleearth-7.0.3.8542 (02 Mar 2013)
>    *googleearth-7.0.2.8415-r2 (10 Feb 2013)
>    *googleearth-7.0.2.8415-r1 (04 Feb 2013)
>    *googleearth-7.0.2.8415 (02 Feb 2013)
>    *googleearth-6.2.2.6613 (05 May 2012)
>    *googleearth-6.2.1.6014-r1 (02 Mar 2012)
>    *googleearth-6.2.1.6014 (01 Mar 2012)
>    *googleearth-6.0.3.2197 (24 May 2011)
>    *googleearth-6.0.2.2074 (02 Apr 2011)
>    *googleearth-6.0.1.2032_beta (31 Jan 2011)
>
>Looks reasonable.
>
>The tricky thing with this package (not sure whether it has improved
>over the last year) is that there are bundled libraries; and depending
>on how you handle (or don't handle) them, it can lead to breakages. Due
>to a binary nature, this is often something you can't resolve yourself;
>iotw, this means you'll need to check up with upstream to fix these.
>
>Besides that, there is also RESTRICT="mirror"; so, you are restricted
>to providing the versions upstream provides (eg. in case you want to
>mask newer versions until a bug is resolved).

Thanks for the info Tom.

I will subscribe myself to the package. Anybody else is invited to 
help me with it.

-Marc

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Re: [gentoo-dev] sci-geosciences/googleearth is orphan and needs a dedicated maintainer

[hasufell]

On 01/30/2014 11:02 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> El jue, 30-01-2014 a las 13:47 +0100, Marc Schiffbauer escribió:
>>> * Pacho Ramos schrieb am 29.01.14 um 07:58 Uhr:
>>>> Currently, there is no really working version of it in the tree:
>>>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=494624
>>>>
>>>> But due its bumps and current bugs, this needs a maintainer...
>>>> otherwise, I would treeclean it (the problem is that looks like some
>>>> people use it, but without none of them willing to maintain it, it will
>>>> be difficult to handle :( )
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> I would help taking care of it, as I use it sometimes.
>>>
>>> How oftes does this need to be bumped?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I am not sure :(, I am not too familiar with it since it never worked ok
>> on my machines
>>
> 
> I do a lot of version bumping on google-chrome, and I have a script
> that automates the process for me. If anyone is interested in
> maintaining googleearth in a similar manner, you might find my script
> useful.
> 
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~floppym/chrome-bump
> 

Googleearth is 90% of the time broken. I don't see how you can do
automated version bumps there. And we should not bump if the new version
is broken.

Re: [gentoo-dev] sci-geosciences/googleearth is orphan and needs a dedicated maintainer

[Mike Gilbert]

On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 10:19 AM, hasufell <hasufell@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Googleearth is 90% of the time broken. I don't see how you can do
> automated version bumps there. And we should not bump if the new version
> is broken.
>

If that is the case, it sounds like it isn't worth keeping it in the tree.