[gentoo-dev] Last rites: net-misc/gwget
# Michał Górny (2020-09-20) # Abandoned upstream, homepage gone. Last release in 2009. Uses # deprecated gnome-base/libgnomeui. Arch apparently has patches to keep # it alive, if anyone wants to. # Removal in 30 days. Bug #726796. net-misc/gwget -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[gentoo-dev] Last rites: sys-block/rts5229
# David Seifert (2020-09-20) # EAPI 4, last release in 2012, sandbox violations and # full of bugs. Mainlined since 3.14, Removal in 30 days. # Bug #679502, #701406, #701408, #742116. sys-block/rts5229 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-dev] How to stabilize packages with frequent release cycles?
On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 4:08 PM Jonas Stein wrote: > > Hi, > > > When the latest release remains 'latest ~arch' for less than 3 days, > > stabilizing it after 30 days makes little sense. After all, people with > > frequent upgrade cycle will test it for no more than that, and people > > with infrequent upgrade cycle may miss the version entirely. > > > Do you have any suggestions how we could improve this? > > At first we need a strict definition of "stable" and "testing", then we > can discuss how to stabilize. > Not sure it is a definition issue so much that the concept doesn't fit with these sorts of packages. Normally the idea of stable is that you're willing to trade speed for quality. The problem is that in these sorts of packages you're often getting neither. For example, you're not going to have a more-bug-free experience with youtube-dl if you run a two month old version, because the APIs are all changing and you're just losing the cat and mouse game. IMO these sorts of packages probably shouldn't have stable versions at all. Then users will accept ~arch, and both know what they're getting into, and also not get stuck with old versions that give them suboptimal results. Now, if somebody can come up with a better interface for that which is cleaner than having to stick foo/bar in accept_keywords that would be nice. But that almost suggests another class of keyword entirely. These packages aren't really "stable" - so much as stable not being an option. -- Rich
[gentoo-dev] Last rites: sci-mathematics/axiom
# David Seifert (2020-09-19) # EAPI 4, last release in 2008, upstream pretty much dead, # tons of bugs, broken since at least 2016, lots of weird # dead/alive/redead forks all over the internet. Use # sci-mathematics/fricas as spiritual successor fork. # Removal in 30 days. Bug #326575, #514762, #532498, # #574956, #581250, #586402, #587878, #740966. sci-mathematics/axiom signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: next batch of py2 packages
On 2020-09-19 16:36, Azamat Hackimov wrote: > Hello. > > сб, 19 сент. 2020 г. в 15:51, Michał Górny : >> sys-firmware/nvidia-firmware >> > Created PR https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/17600 > Excellent! Thats an important firmware package, I would have started a PR also in a few minutes! 0xCE5F3E9B6DE05D12.asc Description: application/pgp-keys
Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: next batch of py2 packages
Hello. сб, 19 сент. 2020 г. в 15:51, Michał Górny : > sys-firmware/nvidia-firmware > Created PR https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/17600 -- >From Siberia with Love!
[gentoo-dev] Last rites: next batch of py2 packages
# Michał Górny (2020-09-19) # These packages (or package versions) still require Python 2.7. # They are either dead upstream, their Python 3 porting efforts are # not progressing or their maintainers are simply unresponsive. # Please do not remove any packages from this list unless you actually # port them to Python 3. # Removal in 30 days. Please find relevant bugs on tracker bug #694800. app-admin/github-backup-utils app-backup/genbackupdata app-i18n/pology app-pda/gtkpod app-text/pdf2djvu app-text/sgmltools-lite dev-util/anjuta dev-util/gyp app-i18n/mozc sci-libs/magma sys-firmware/nvidia-firmware -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-java/oracle-{jdk,jre}-bin and revdeps
took a while, removed. I was able to save jabref-bin, works fine with openjdk:8 geogebra now availabie as geogebra-bin and works with openjdk8 and 11. sleuthkit was spared. rest is gone, but if someone wants to restore - patches welcome. On 4/18/20 9:10 PM, Georgy Yakovlev wrote: > # Georgy Yakovlev (2020-04-18) > # Unmaintained, vulnerable oracle java ebuilds, even fetching distfiles > # requires agreement to restrictive license > # Revdeps that still depend on oracle variants require javafx > # Please use icedtea or openjdk instead. > # Removal in 30 days. > # https://bugs.gentoo.org/681828 > dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin > dev-java/oracle-jre-bin > app-forensics/sleuthkit > app-text/jabref-bin > dev-java/netbeans-platform > dev-java/netbeans-harness > games-util/pogo-manager-bin > net-p2p/bisq > sci-mathematics/geogebra > > > > Oracle java has been maintainer-needed since august 2019, > no one stepped up. > Removal in 30 days. > > If someone wants to save the javafx revdeps, best way will be > packaging zulufx community [1], I can provide some guidance > on packaging it, should not be too hard. >
