Re: [gentoo-dev] sys-boot/plymouth needs major fixes/maintainer

[Lucas Ramage <ramage.lucas94@gmail.com>]

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I am not yet an official developer but I am interested in assisting in
maintaining this.

On Wed, Jul 26, 2017, 6:04 AM Mart Raudsepp <leio@gentoo.org> wrote:

> Ühel kenal päeval, K, 26.07.2017 kell 11:56, kirjutas Pacho Ramos:
> > sys-boot/plymouth is orphan for a long time. Its old 0.8.x versions
> > where having
> > important bugs that were fixed in 0.9.x, but 0.9 is also plenty of
> > issues. Then,
> > either this is adopted by someone able to handle all that issues or
> > we will need
> > to finally treeclean (and drop its support for dependant packages)
>
> I wasn't aware it had issues or lacked a maintainer.
>
> I hope this call will find a dedicated maintainer; if not, I will pick
> this up later. But I do hope it finds someone else, as my plates are
> rather full.
>
> I don't use it yet because then I wouldn't be able to test fixes or
> write fixes to bug 613222 as plymouth would workaround this. After that
> bug is fixed, I plan to use plymouth together with dracut+disk
> encryption, etc.
>
> So if no-one steps up in the meantime, please don't remove the work
> already there (I also know people that use it successfully as-is). But
> I hope someone else does step up, please!
>
>
> Mart
>
>

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