Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFD] Adopt-a-package, proxy-maintenance, and other musings

[Ian Delaney <idella4@gentoo.org>]

On Tue, 19 Jan 2016 22:02:21 -0500
Göktürk Yüksek <gokturk@binghamton.edu> wrote:

> Duncan:
> > NP-Hardass posted on Tue, 19 Jan 2016 00:44:49 -0500 as excerpted:
> >   
>  [...]  
> > 
> > That gave me the idea of a maintainer-needed eclass.  When packages
> > are set to maintainer-needed, they can simply inherit this eclass
> > and add whatever function to the pkg_postinst, that will add a
> > message that will in effect say "adopt-me please", probably
> > printing a proxy-maintainer invitation URL to go to for more
> > information.
> > 
> > Talking about pkg_postinst messages, unless I missed it there's no
> > simple way to add a one ATM, without coding up the whole function,
> > making it problematic for eclasses, etc.  For EAPI-7, what about
> > either a helper function that can be called, or an array variable
> > that can be simply added to, that simply adds the supplied message
> > to a list of messages printed at pkg_postinst time, and of course
> > an appropriate default_pkg_postinst to go along with it?  Then
> > ebuilds and eclasses can call this helper or set this var in
> > whatever phase they need to, and the message will be printed at
> > pkg_postinst time without having to worry about setting up your own
> > pkg_postinst or stepping on anything pkg_postinst related setup
> > elsewhere. 
> See:
> sys-apps/portage: show an elog message when merged package is
> maintained by maintainer-needed
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=398633
> 
> Can we reconsider implementing this idea perhaps?
> 

Given the thrust of this whole discussion this is a good idea. It
naturally advertises packages of this unmaintained status to users as
they emerge.

> --
> gokturk
> 
> 



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kind regards

Ian Delaney