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 33DE3138334 for ; Sat, 23 Jun 2018 02:52:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F38B8E0883; Sat, 23 Jun 2018 02:52:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx-out2.startmail.com (mx-out2.startmail.com [145.131.90.155]) (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 8561DE0871 for ; Sat, 23 Jun 2018 02:52:01 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 21:50:50 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=startmail.com; s=2017-11; t=1529722319; bh=8gg0fn/KHCktt297yPg3WAcUDbSEPeEgnaTXENmmcFs=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:From; b=nNIEoGkA6Z/YzD/0Skpaa61f6yhvKfgChPuSoVl1iMVOzO2oo6Th8pLuBbUfBdKeK Zk6CFVyz4CJne6wJDZe27A2mWqY7wkicA+TyfHfqcyBWTR9gVinXXz3DcfF0YJ802b CD8f5icpzYRHyPFJAwexkSKnn8iwL6A6NhG+adhp/lhWOUuBfhK8cXbMJGhqtHCmdN Lwe5PNs+J8rLOQ3ENytsm8zArKGdUqu7Ji4j0VK+evAan4s72lOSPUlILqBNX1Irgs uFROuBJvd3Z/+3ie5c2QA09bHrQXrF+2quPsKWGtJP9cThhXLnievFlRqLyBKMWGWm oBYTbZwV1f6lA== From: "Marty E. Plummer" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] Idea for a new project: gentoo-libs Message-ID: <20180623025046.djmsv44moxuqkv6t@proprietary-killer> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Archives-Salt: 8c85249e-d7b0-41da-afcf-a20f1a11fc9c X-Archives-Hash: 1150c626bec53e3208e11ddd9ff7bbc9 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. 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.