[gentoo-dev] Last Rites: net-irc/kvirc

[gentoo-dev] Last Rites: net-irc/kvirc

[Matt Turner]

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# Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> (2023-05-08)
# Package is unmaintained and appears quite dead (e.g. SSL certificate for the
# homepage expired in 2021). Only version is a snapshot from 2021. No Python
# 3.11 support. Depends on app-text/enchant:0.
# Bug #905955. Removal on 2023-06-08
net-irc/kvirc

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Last Rites: net-irc/kvirc

[Alexey Sokolov]

08.05.2023 17:57, Matt Turner пишет:
> # Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> (2023-05-08)
> # Package is unmaintained and appears quite dead (e.g. SSL certificate 
> for the
> # homepage expired in 2021). Only version is a snapshot from 2021. No 
> Python
> # 3.11 support. Depends on app-text/enchant:0.

Hi, I'm upstream.

Kvirc doesn't actually require enchant:0, it just works with either 
enchant:0 or enchant:2. In fact, if enchant:2 is installed, it already 
uses it, despite the dependency. The ebuild should probably patch out 
the fallback to enchant:0 and just depend on enchant:2.

Python 3.11 also works, but the ebuild is outdated.

Re SSL cert, it's a valid concern. I'll try to figure out what happened 
there.

Re snapshot from 2021, perhaps it's time to release a new version. We 
have latest commit in 2022, can at least update the ebuild to use that one.

I'll take maintainership and update the ebuild, temporarily moving 
homepage to http:// and fixing the issues above.

> # Bug #905955. Removal on 2023-06-08
> net-irc/kvirc

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Best regards,
Alexey "DarthGandalf" Sokolov