Re: [gentoo-dev] Unstabling a package

[Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 4:24 AM, Jeff Horelick <jdhore@gentoo.org> wrote:
> While i'm not willing to maintain mythtv myself (as I don't use it
> (anymore)) or join the herd, what about contacting upstream as they
> already have their own overlay [1] and see if they'd like to "proxy
> maintain" the official Gentoo packages, sort of.
>

We do generally coordinate with them, and per my blog I refer users
upstream if they want more bleeding-edge experiences.  The upstream
overlay tends to be ahead in terms of releases, and the official
Gentoo ebuilds tend to be ahead in terms of formal QA compliance and
packaging-related bugs, deps, etc.  We do share, however.  The biggest
difference right now between the two is that the Gentoo ebuilds are no
longer using the eclass until we can get rid of 0.23 and update the
eclass.

I do plan to maintain a stable mythtv branch, whether in portage or in
an overlay regardless.

Rich