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 5E16B138239 for ; Mon, 25 Jun 2018 05:59:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 13951E0917; Mon, 25 Jun 2018 05:59:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (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 9FDA3E08FC for ; Mon, 25 Jun 2018 05:59:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from computer (unknown [IPv6:2001:2012:127:3e00:ff5e:3a82:43d7:a6d6]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: hanno) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6B04C335CA0 for ; Mon, 25 Jun 2018 05:59:48 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 07:59:47 +0200 From: Hanno =?UTF-8?B?QsO2Y2s=?= To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Idea for a new project: gentoo-libs Message-ID: <20180625075947.03bd4875@computer> In-Reply-To: <20180623025046.djmsv44moxuqkv6t@proprietary-killer> References: <20180623025046.djmsv44moxuqkv6t@proprietary-killer> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.16.0 (GTK+ 2.24.32; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: db738b4b-968b-40bf-8a18-0a6ccd4ab1e5 X-Archives-Hash: 93654ded380cc498368a9f18db6d5f37 On Fri, 22 Jun 2018 21:50:50 -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. This is a common problem, however if you want to make this reasonable you wouldn't make it a gentoo thing, but a cross-distro effort. The idea has been tossed around a lot, but noone yet started implementing it. However keeping things alive may not always be the right option. There's a reason mcrypt is abandoned. It's an ancient crypto library, crypto is moving forward, there are better options. THe main user of mcrypt was PHP, and PHP is abandoning it with 7.2. (There are 2 other users in the gentoo tree of libmcrypt, which are both rather obscure packages - nsca and elettra.) --=20 Hanno B=C3=B6ck https://hboeck.de/ mail/jabber: hanno@hboeck.de GPG: FE73757FA60E4E21B937579FA5880072BBB51E42