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 634E5138334 for ; Sat, 23 Jun 2018 02:59:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 314EBE0891; Sat, 23 Jun 2018 02:58:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx-out1.startmail.com (mx-out1.startmail.com [145.131.90.139]) (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 BF88EE083D for ; Sat, 23 Jun 2018 02:58:54 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 21:57:42 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=startmail.com; s=2017-11; t=1529722733; bh=FsBy+7fCi77inNZYBskVWmW9JPBr+REBS8TtOuV+gZM=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=LTvZBSkJHQxO6bdP6jpN1ic1dn5dVGPjW2klaX1ZJCWEmtWO4aMlVAWEhvOCfRngx WYk+cB41C8JdqOucAGGfL8TN6Xv80rw8aqwOsgeMEoDVV7qvAkRtAoZbqUpSjdSBH9 hqoxhS0CKG8iNxbjYPbNft9EATofe47SIO66jIcfI2hd0e9DtvdSbI+SKEpzOLiYn7 inKrrLf+J3FaA3HNRHYnMVcmZW4zwWb4+lOvXPIANAXnSeZL8jVaoATlzEk/0N5LQj yy+JuEihmcadYbWWRAc6szEI/RTmRmnShdeaWBia2J8tYeJ6HG4dzvD3bO891MFMHH OBgm9qIFZb/YA== From: "Marty E. Plummer" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Idea for a new project: gentoo-libs Message-ID: <20180623025739.clijycvxkfskmmdy@proprietary-killer> References: <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 In-Reply-To: <20180623025046.djmsv44moxuqkv6t@proprietary-killer> X-Archives-Salt: 5be67db3-25ff-4d6b-bfdb-e355d2c0fb50 X-Archives-Hash: 04f298786eb24812af0f719986e91050 On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 09:50:50PM -0500, Marty E. Plummer wrote: > 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. > Or... call it proxy-upstream, to be in line with the current proxy-maint setup?