Kristian Fiskerstrand posted on Fri, 16 Sep 2016 14:58:22 +0200 as excerpted:
> On 09/16/2016 02:31 PM, Hanno Böck wrote: >> media-gfx/skencil is a python-written vector graphics tool. It was once >> popular before inkscape became the de-facto-standard. It hasn't seen >> any upstream activity for a decade(!), but surprisingly it still seems >> to work. >> >> I haven't used it for many years myself. >> >> There are 4 open bugs in bugzilla. >> >> Anyone interested in taking it? (else the usual: will be reassigned to >> maintainer-needed) > > Also sounds like a candidate for treecleaning / moving to an overlay and > not keeping non-upstream maintained things in tree if nobody want to > take the maintainer burden of it. Why treeclean it, if it still works and can still be built against in- tree python? Sometimes mature packages don't get further maintenance because they "just work" as they are, and don't _need_ to eventually be bloated to include email and browsing functionality or whatever. Of course if it requires old python and eventually the last supported in- tree python is being removed, and nobody steps up to update it then, /then/ it should be removed from the tree as it'll be broken /then/, but that's not the case now, as Hanno explicitly said it still seems to work. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
