Re: [gentoo-dev] Idea for a new project: gentoo-libs

["Marty E. Plummer" <hanetzer@startmail.com>]

On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 09:22:00AM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
> W dniu pią, 22.06.2018 o godzinie 21∶50 -0500, użytkownik Marty E.
> Plummer napisał:
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> 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.
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
> Michał Górny

No, I mean for packages which are important enough in gentoo to warrant
such treatment. For instance, every email I've tried for bzip2's
upstream bounced or recieved no reply. That, I assume, is important
enough to actually maintain and improve. Any other library which may be
as important which are as inactive would be added.