orbea <or...@riseup.net> writes:
> 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. Someone has to then bother reviewing it, merging it, releasing it, and ideally updating eudev for other stuff like this. Also note that the PR is a hack rather than a full implementation of the functionality anyway, which may lead to runtime misbehaviour. > >> >> > >> > Dale >> > >> > :-) :-) >> >>
