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

["Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@gentoo.org>]

On 1/16/16 8:09 PM, Joshua Kinard wrote:
> 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.
> 


If people take care of their own packages in that list, that would
really speed things up!

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