[gentoo-dev] Re: Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2017-05-28 23:59 UTC
On 2017-05-29, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed > from the tree, for the week ending 2017-05-28 23:59 UTC. > > Removals: > app-editors/vim-qt 20170525-10:36 mgorny 1aff8d7da4e This was announced here in April[1]. As soon as it was announced, Gordon Pettey commented here[2] that upstream was fine. A quick inspection to the $HOMEPAGE seems to point out that, at some point, the bitbucket repository was the main one, and github was a "mirror". But, by looking at the github mirror[3], it looks like upstream has been quite active, just not in bitbucket. The README at github also hints that this is for Vim 8, which seems to be the in-tree version of Vim. The move to github was also mentioned in gentoo bug 607136[4], comment 2. Why was this last-rited with the reasoning of "Doesn't work with any in-tree versions of vim. Inactive upstream.", when upstream seems to be active *and* this was mentioned both on the mailing list and on bugzilla? [1] http://marc.info/?l=gentoo-dev=149294484724875 [2] http://marc.info/?l=gentoo-dev=149295586026533=2 [3] https://github.com/equalsraf/vim-qt/commits/master [4] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=607136 -- Nuno Silva
[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Restricted version of gentoo-dev mailing list
On 2017-05-24, Michał Górny wrote: > On śro, 2017-05-24 at 03:48 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: >> On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 08:41:25AM +0200, Micha?? Górny wrote [...] >> Note where I said "...posted on Gentoo-User for comment...". What I'm >> asking is for such proposed changes to be posted on Gentoo-User, and the >> discussion/feedback/flamefests/etc will be on Gentoo-User. This type of >> surprise stuff seems to happen a lot in Open Source... >> >> * Gentoo /usr >> * Firefox Australis UI, and dropping ALSA and going PulseAudio-only >> * GNOME getting a hard-coded dependancy on systemd >> * etc, etc > > And what would be the use of those 'user comments'? Do you believe it > would change anything? So what is the purpose of asking more users from > feedback *we do not want*? Is this the official policy of the Gentoo project? -- Nuno Silva
[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: media-tv/tvtime
On 2013-03-24, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 23/03/13 01:15, Markos Chandras wrote: # Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org (22 Mar 2013) # Fails with automake-1.12 (#424289) # Problems with the alsa patches (#403389) # Herd has not interest in it and needs a maintainer # Removal in a month unless a new maintainer steps up # and fix all the bugs # Alternatives: media-tv/me-tv, media-tv/mythtv media-tv/tvtime These aren't alternatives (they're only dealing with digital TV, not analog.) AFAIK, tvtime has no alternatives at all. If it goes, analog TV users can't watch TV anymore :-/ mplayer *can* play it, but tuning is a different story. I suppose you can always craft a playlist with URIs that have the channel frequency and use that. But in terms of interface, tvtime is a bit better, IMHO. Sadly, I don't really have any analog broadcasts around to try it with. -- Nuno Silva (aka njsg) http://njsg.sdf-eu.org/
