[gentoo-dev] Last rites: sci-chemistry/ortep3

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: sci-chemistry/ortep3

[David Seifert]

# David Seifert <soap@gentoo.org> (2020-09-16)
# EAPI 4, last release in 2001, the Fortran source code
# is terrible and has buffer overflows.
# Removal in 30 days.  Bug #664120, #742008.
sci-chemistry/ortep3

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: sci-chemistry/ortep3

[Ashley Dixon]

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On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 10:21:17PM +0200, David Seifert wrote:
> # David Seifert <soap@gentoo.org> (2020-09-16)
> # EAPI 4, last release in 2001, the Fortran source code
> # is terrible and has buffer overflows.
> # Removal in 30 days.  Bug #664120, #742008.
> sci-chemistry/ortep3

I can't see how this ebuild was working at all, regardless of the aforementioned
bugs. SRC_URI has been dead for many years, along with HOMEPAGE [1]. It seems to
have been mirrored at [2] and [3] (which the ebuild does not reflect),  although
all the other glaring issues remain.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20200801000000*/http://www.ornl.gov/sci/ortep
[2] https://ornl-ndav.github.io/ortep/ortep.html
[3] https://github.com/ornl-ndav/ortep

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