On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 21:31:30 +0100
Sam James <s...@gentoo.org> wrote:

> Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > orbea wrote:  
> >> On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 17:29:47 +0200
> >> "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfri...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >>  
> >>> Am Montag, 11. September 2023, 17:22:43 CEST schrieb orbea:
> >>>  
> >>>> Upstream is maintained still.
> >>>>
> >>>> https://github.com/eudev-project/eudev
> >>>>     
> >>> No, it's not.
> >>>
> >>>  
> >> Based on what? It has several commits this year and is currently
> >> working on both of my systems. Is there something specific showing
> >> why its not maintained?
> >>
> >> .
> >>  
> >
> > On the link above it says this:
> >
> >
> > On 2021-08-20 Gentoo decided to abandon eudev and a new project was
> > established on 2021-09-14 by Alpine, Devuan and Gentoo contributors
> > (alphabetical order).
> >
> >
> > It seems to have a upstream that is active but no one is
> > maintaining it on Gentoo.  Basically, it needs a Gentoo maintainer
> > now.  It would seem given the time span that no one wants to take
> > it. 
> >
> > Like others, I use it but didn't know it wasn't maintained anymore.
> >  I hope someone will step up but if not, looks like we have to use
> > udev.   
> 
> No, see the linked bugs. Someone has to actually make it compatible
> with the tags API which software is starting to use.

I think its only a matter of time.

https://github.com/eudev-project/eudev/pull/253

I'll apply the patch and test the builds if it helps, but I don't know
about testing the runtime functionality of libgudev.

> 
> >
> > Dale
> >
> > :-)  :-)   
> 
> 


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