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

[Marek Szuba <marecki@gentoo.org>]

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On 2023-10-26 02:29, Jonas Stein wrote:

> this is a very powerful package with many users.

...but sadly, very few maintainers. It was m-n when I took it over 3 
years ago, as apparently no-one found it worth looking after following 
the disbanding of the Graphics project - and that was back when upstream 
still used CMake! Telling the truth I wasn't exactly interested either, 
it's just that it happened to be an optional dependency of 
media-gfx/darktable.

> Thank you for maintaining it till now.

You're very welcome!

> 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.

I used to do that. It seemed to have little to no effect so in the end I 
just gave up.

> 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.

There are two outstanding QA issues (ignored LDFLAGS and pre-stripped 
binaries) in 3.3.1 pertaining to USE=gimp and USE=qt5. Prior to adding 
that version I tried to leverage qmake-utils.eclass in the Qt parts of 
the package, which hopefully would have got rid of these issues - but 
resulted in a wall of actual errors. This has been the last straw as far 
as me maintaining G'MIC is concerned.

> I suggest to keep it for a few more months.

Fine by me if someone actually maintains it. I've just dropped 
media-gfx/gmic back to m-n to make it clear that I do not intend to 
block it from being reactivated.

-- 
Marecki


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