On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 23:02:00 +0200
Michael Hanselmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 03:04:27PM +0200, Benedikt Boehm wrote:
> > qmail-ldap will not be removed for sure, since i maintain it
> > currently.
> 
> Okay, my status there was outdated. We were at least discussing it at
> some point in history.
> 
> > > And as the netqmail ebuild maintainer, I want the ebuild to be as
> > > simple as possible, that is, no external dependencies where
> > > possible.
> 
> > so, you suggest it is a better way to duplicate tons of code in 4
> > ebuilds?
> 
> I'll think about it.
> 
> [...]
>
> > On a sidenote, qmail has a huge amount of open bugs, and has
> > generally gotten no love in the past time, so i wonder if it
> > actually was/is maintained.
> 
> qmail != netqmail. To my knowledge, we have only one outstanding bug
> there, the one with man pages colliding, nothing critical. Since I
> also have other things in life with higher priorities than Gentoo, it
> has to wait. However, I should get to it during the week or at latest
> two weeks.

As it seems, you do not have the time and/or interest to cleanup the
qmail mess, but don't want anyone to touch (net)qmail ebuilds either, i
have put the updated ebuilds for qmail and friends into my overlay. [1]

Maybe we can get them into the tree some time in the future.

Bene

[1]
http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/hollow/2007/07/15/experimental_qmail_ebuilds
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