[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: media-gfx/gmic

[Jonas Stein <jstein@gentoo.org>]

Hi Marecki,

this is a very powerful package with many users.
Thank you for maintaining it till now.

Could you address the exact problems to upstream, so they are aware and 
can improve it?
I think not only Gentoo, but also other distributions suffer if it does 
not build smooth.

Looks to me as if the package is not broken now, but there is a lack of 
manpower to update it. 30 days is the minimum for a removal.

I suggest to keep it for a few more months.

On  2023-10-26 03:00, Marek Szuba wrote:
> Upstream uses a massive home-made Makefile which has since the beginning
> required massive amounts of patching to make it behave reasonably
> (as well as to fix the problems which ostensibly led upstream to
> abandoning CMake, and which they immediately re-introduced in their NIH
> solution) and which if anything have only got worse since then. One,
> optional, reverse dependency in the tree.
> Removal on 2023-11-26. Bug #916289.

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Best,
Jonas