Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2024-06-28 Thread Hoël Bézier
Hi, Am Fr, Jun 28, 2024 am 01:12:15 +0200 schrieb Michał Górny: Hi, Due to their maintainers retiring from Gentoo, the following packages are now in need of a new maintainer: [snip] app-backup/borgbackup mail-mta/msmtp [snip] I’d be willing to take these ones. What should I do for that? si

Re: [gentoo-dev] mirror storage growth rate

2024-03-15 Thread Hoël Bézier
I guess the simplest explanation is that software is growing larger, and in the end we should be expecting to adding new packages faster than removing dead ones. Add to that the grotesque inefficiency of modern programming languages such as Go and Rust. Wouldn’t initiatives like rust-dev[0] hel

[gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs

2024-02-14 Thread Hoël Bézier
Hi, I’m stepping down from maintenance so the following package is now looking for a new maintainer: sys-apps/bat It has two open bugs about failing tests. Hoël signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: sys-apps/bat, app-misc/physlock, dev-lang/crystal, dev-util/shards

2023-02-11 Thread Hoël Bézier
Am Sat, Feb 11, 2023 at 07:58:27PM +0100 schrieb Jonas Stein: Dear all the following packages are up for grabs after retirement of the inactive proxied maintainer: sys-apps/bat Hi, I’m willing to take up that one. What should I do? Hoël signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] Java issue with a proprietary game

2023-01-29 Thread Hoël Bézier
Hi, Recently I’ve run into an issue with a proprietary java game called The Count Lucanor. It is distributed on GOG.com with a bundled Java 8 binary. Since bundled libraries are evil™, I’ve tried getting rid of it in favor of my system java binary. If the latter is Java 8, everything works a