orbea <or...@riseup.net> writes:
> On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 22:21:21 +0100 > Sam James <s...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> 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. > > According to upstream it implement's systemd's fallback path as > explained in this comment. > > https://github.com/eudev-project/eudev/issues/249#issuecomment-1675520914 That same comment goes on to say it's the "quick-n-dirty" fix and may break applications. > > However its fully possible to use Gentoo without requiring sticky-tags > so I don't really see the urgency that requires removing software that > has users that find it works for them. We even have the most recent > upstream release which came out only a few months ago. > >> >> > >> >> >> >> > >> >> > Dale >> >> > >> >> > :-) :-) >> >> >> >> >> >>
