From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 21348138334 for ; Sat, 23 Jun 2018 07:43:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E9D25E08EF; Sat, 23 Jun 2018 07:43:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (dev.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 53ACFE08C4 for ; Sat, 23 Jun 2018 07:43:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.40] (unknown [213.24.125.138]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: zlogene) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4D770335C8C for ; Sat, 23 Jun 2018 07:43:16 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Idea for a new project: gentoo-libs To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <20180623025046.djmsv44moxuqkv6t@proprietary-killer> From: Mikle Kolyada Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Autocrypt: addr=zlogene@gentoo.org; keydata= xo0EUa985wEEANtm+0QkkFUqgmnsUKoJ1bzAaIamMLL6E+qykF/O3hEIxO6t6W+W2pH+63tG USNBwOfBRWd+5+NoLddgwkrY7UG2a0cZ3yn7UQCgCEcEaHLreLrelTy1l55Mc4kPNiLnZn2Y +VQJgTuJYMQMEliM+TFlGFVzuVEfbjiwKetDdzAHABEBAAHNIk1pa2xlIEtvbHlhZGEgPHps b2dlbmVAZ2VudG9vLm9yZz7CuQQTAQIAIwUCUa985wIbAwcLCQgHAwIBBhUIAgkKCwQWAgMB Ah4BAheAAAoJEBvcDlrELrXWKckD/0ELhLCBCozb5hFgUGt9OlaaYf+5CVCJ03groVQ01KGf v9kuQvU/piHah1xf+sFJoEVpNLyXop7NzbnRICjkvjX+wyGlznCnxB5+PRxZzxEP4llktvxM bamfiNjk+7c/tRfLgpU83fFGjX5VXDla7L6JkK7bJHBiMQkIBk5bnl8Bzo0EUa985wEEAMoX XmdUNLjsWcKAJfavkNRQBExFW3y0iJP0rWLW/4ElehR53OeUHDG3h5Vs5rcK3OPe1cBuUljN UQ/dCjsJUfyfOXM7YaI7YKhgNXGt1gc4aTX389Xm4H6NpPXeTfyCvq3cZlp6z9peWxt6DI7N iJRbt8yWI9ZOcM6FUdXCsEYJABEBAAHCnwQYAQIACQUCUa985wIbDAAKCRAb3A5axC611iVx BACoBG22XBIF4MaahQ4JF2Of2t7OKAj6ieAYj+nZ5DwpQO3F/daz+Q4zmHFjeapVC3E3CThO DgDneq+/B42stXodHQqLdOrrCuRvM8sKjcsl+uz2GdNdsM0AyXvHnksKhIV+fdeZkObVAyQE I+x+fVCJiMDmVTfueJgahTDUP3TVgA== Message-ID: <635c26d0-68d2-9b59-d1a9-2783b4da46da@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2018 10:43:08 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.8.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20180623025046.djmsv44moxuqkv6t@proprietary-killer> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="C1WxXILEybTnDYaawCLAz8jDDgRCmxBGW" X-Archives-Salt: 2d3dd8ba-f5b1-4973-a06f-9a5b016d7553 X-Archives-Hash: 9202136f52b1b8dd7589456685e7be93 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --C1WxXILEybTnDYaawCLAz8jDDgRCmxBGW Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="vUXMDeLtaFrnruaSNglHRpx2tV4r2h5Nd"; protected-headers="v1" From: Mikle Kolyada To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Message-ID: <635c26d0-68d2-9b59-d1a9-2783b4da46da@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Idea for a new project: gentoo-libs References: <20180623025046.djmsv44moxuqkv6t@proprietary-killer> In-Reply-To: <20180623025046.djmsv44moxuqkv6t@proprietary-killer> --vUXMDeLtaFrnruaSNglHRpx2tV4r2h5Nd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Language: en-US On 23.06.2018 05:50, Marty E. Plummer wrote: > So, as you may be aware I've been doing some work on moving bzip2 to an= > autotools based build. Recently I've ran into app-crypt/mhash, which is= > in a semi-abandoned state (talking with the maintainer on twitter atm),= > and I was thinking it may be a good idea to set up a project for keepin= g > these semi-abandoned and really-abandoned libraries and projects up to > date and such. But how would it serve gentoo itself? Lots of packages in the distro have dead upstream but still work. Why would you want to make gentoo an upstream area rather than moving a dead project itself, say, to github and do the job there? > > Basically, an upstream for packages who's upstream is either > uncontactable or is otherwise not accepting bug fixes and patches. So > far I can only think of app-crypt/mhash and app-arch/bzip2 but I'm sure= > there are others in this state. > --vUXMDeLtaFrnruaSNglHRpx2tV4r2h5Nd-- --C1WxXILEybTnDYaawCLAz8jDDgRCmxBGW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iLMEAQEIAB0WIQQ75Qy/x9/HSNkDtdMb3A5axC611gUCWy36EwAKCRAb3A5axC61 1htBA/0YsYPlR7Z8Tt0/8s1gh1enN9YWet2PRIjdjEBykbvJDDbj0jjFX1uP3ftu Zm71w87KN0R+0laeJDrZHIc4762f120Cm3mrlGKPSm3WmwoBd2MsF0tWvFHoHjQ1 ZYZAyTlXZgMoSwcwKxQjfRj+1wHeJykpSullgUW7B6dgnV0eJA== =deSZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --C1WxXILEybTnDYaawCLAz8jDDgRCmxBGW--