Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] profiles: mask sys-fs/eudev for removal
On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 9:15 AM Thomas Deutschmann wrote: > > Hi, > > why do you want to drop the package? Since news item, upstream changed. > There will be a new release soon. Was this just on your list to finish > or is there another reason? > > I am currently watching upstream and would wait to see if they really do > the release and keep up with the promise. We can still last-rite next > quarter, not? I sincerely doubt eudev will be well maintained by anyone, and will probably be poorly maintained in Gentoo. It's a maintenance burden we don't need any longer now that sys-fs/udev can be installed on all of the platforms we support. I would guess that the majority of active developers in the base-system project want to see it gone. Also, I am planning to replace the poorly maintained "hwids" package with the "hwdata" package maintained by a Red Hat employee. Part of this plan involved installing the hwdb data that is shipped with udev/systemd. This plan would be blocked if eudev remained in Gentoo.
Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] profiles: mask sys-fs/eudev for removal
On 25.11.2021 16.15, Thomas Deutschmann wrote: > Hi, > > why do you want to drop the package? Since news item, upstream changed. > There will be a new release soon. Was this just on your list to finish > or is there another reason? > > I am currently watching upstream and would wait to see if they really do > the release and keep up with the promise. We can still last-rite next > quarter, not? > > ++ I'd also like to see what comes out with new upstream. Regarding maintainership, AFAIK one person who's involved in the new upstream is also interested in maintaining this in Gentoo. But this is just based on my current assumption. (any non @gentoo.org addresses are still welcome to post in this ML after subscribing - at least for now) -- juippis OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] profiles: mask sys-fs/eudev for removal
Hi, why do you want to drop the package? Since news item, upstream changed. There will be a new release soon. Was this just on your list to finish or is there another reason? I am currently watching upstream and would wait to see if they really do the release and keep up with the promise. We can still last-rite next quarter, not? -- Regards, Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer fpr: C4DD 695F A713 8F24 2AA1 5638 5849 7EE5 1D5D 74A5 OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-dev] [PATCH] profiles: mask sys-fs/eudev for removal
Signed-off-by: Mike Gilbert --- profiles/package.mask | 5 + 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) I am sending this as a patch to the list before pushing it in case anybody has a reasonable objection. diff --git a/profiles/package.mask b/profiles/package.mask index e2aa00757e1..73f7a63474c 100644 --- a/profiles/package.mask +++ b/profiles/package.mask @@ -33,6 +33,11 @@ #--- END OF EXAMPLES --- +# Mike Gilbert (2021-11-24) +# eudev will be removed on 2022-01-01. +# Please see the news item published on 2021-08-24 for more information. +sys-fs/eudev + # Lars Wendler (2021-11-24) # No real development since Q1 2020. Last release from 2016. # Users should switch over to media-sound/strawberry which is an actively -- 2.34.0
