On Fri, 22 Jun 2018 21:50:50 -0500 "Marty E. Plummer" <[email protected]> wrote:
> So, as you may be aware I've been doing some work on moving bzip2 to > an autotools based build. Recently I've ran into app-crypt/mhash, > which is in a semi-abandoned state (talking with the maintainer on > twitter atm), and I was thinking it may be a good idea to set up a > project for keeping these semi-abandoned and really-abandoned > libraries and projects up to date and such. This is a common problem, however if you want to make this reasonable you wouldn't make it a gentoo thing, but a cross-distro effort. The idea has been tossed around a lot, but noone yet started implementing it. However keeping things alive may not always be the right option. There's a reason mcrypt is abandoned. It's an ancient crypto library, crypto is moving forward, there are better options. THe main user of mcrypt was PHP, and PHP is abandoning it with 7.2. (There are 2 other users in the gentoo tree of libmcrypt, which are both rather obscure packages - nsca and elettra.) -- Hanno Böck https://hboeck.de/ mail/jabber: [email protected] GPG: FE73757FA60E4E21B937579FA5880072BBB51E42
