Re: [gentoo-dev] Herd up for grabs: net-dialup

[Joshua Kinard <kumba@gentoo.org>]

On 01/16/2016 12:30, Michał Górny wrote:
> Hello, everyone.
> 
> The current maintainer(s) of net-dialup herd has decided that he's
> (they're) not interested in keeping it and would like the packages
> to be dropped to maintainer-needed.
> 
> Is anyone interested in keeping the herd as-is and maintaining all
> packages in it? If I get no reply till 2016-01-24, I will effectively
> remove the herd and announce the packages that landed in maintainer-
> -needed as a result.
> 
> Packages currently in herd, along with their other maintainers:
> 
> net-dialup/accel-ppp         : pinkbyte@
> net-dialup/capi4k-utils      : 
> net-dialup/capidivert        : 
> net-dialup/capifwd           : 
> net-dialup/capisuite         : 
> net-dialup/cistronradius     : 
> net-dialup/cutecom           : 
> net-dialup/dial              : 
> net-dialup/diald             : 
> net-dialup/drdsl             : 
> net-dialup/dtrace            : sbriesen@
> net-dialup/dwun              : 
> net-dialup/fbgetty           : 
> net-dialup/fcpci             : 
> net-dialup/freeradius        : 
> net-dialup/freeradius-client : 
> net-dialup/globespan-adsl    : 
> net-dialup/gnuradius         : 
> net-dialup/gtkterm           : 
> net-dialup/hcfpcimodem       : 
> net-dialup/isdn-firmware     : 
> net-dialup/itund             : 
> net-dialup/kpnadsl4linux     : 
> net-dialup/linux-atm         : 
> net-dialup/lrzsz             : 
> net-dialup/mgetty            : 
> net-dialup/mingetty          : 
> net-dialup/minicom           : 
> net-dialup/mwavem            : 
> net-dialup/picocom           : flameeyes@
> net-dialup/ppp               : 
> net-dialup/pppconfig         : 
> net-dialup/ppp-scripts       : 
> net-dialup/pptpclient        : 
> net-dialup/pptpd             : 
> net-dialup/qtwvdialer        : 
> net-dialup/radiusclient      : 
> net-dialup/radiusclient-ng   : 
> net-dialup/rp-l2tp           : 
> net-dialup/rp-pppoe          : 
> net-dialup/sendpage          : 
> net-dialup/sercd             : 
> net-dialup/speedtouch-usb    : 
> net-dialup/tkvoice           : 
> net-dialup/ueagle4-atm       : 
> net-dialup/ueagle-atm        : 
> net-dialup/wvdial            : 
> net-dialup/xc                : 
> net-dialup/xl2tpd            : floppym@
> net-dns/pdnsd                : polynomial-c@
> net-libs/libcapi             : 
> net-libs/wvstreams           : 
> net-misc/capiisdnmon         : 
> net-misc/hylafaxplus         : mattm@
> net-misc/iaxmodem            : 
> net-misc/termpkg             : 
> www-apps/freeradius-dialupadmin : 
> 

I can look at taking over net-dialup/xc.  It rarely gets updates anyways, as
upstream never intended it to be used on Linux (Xenix and SCO OpenServer were
the intended targets).  Somehow, it works, but has quite a few QA issues
(namely cavalier sprintf() usage with no buffer overflow checks).  It's been on
my TODO list to fix up one of these days, as well as adding the hard-to-find
5.x release.

I've also played with hylafax and iaxmodem before, but no longer have setups to
test those with.

-- 
Joshua Kinard
Gentoo/MIPS
kumba@gentoo.org
6144R/F5C6C943 2015-04-27
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