[gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs due bass retirement
On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:09:39 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: El lun, 19-03-2012 a las 21:20 -0600, Ryan Hill escribió: On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:34:22 +0100 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: El dom, 18-03-2012 a las 23:56 -0600, Ryan Hill escribió: On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:25:58 +0100 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: Due his retirement the following packages need a new maintainer: app-doc/ebookmerge This is something bass wrote that grabs html manuals from http://htmlhelp.berlios.de (which doesn't exist anymore - it moved to http://code.google.com/p/htmlhelp/). I don't really see the usefulness of it since almost all of the content is just html versions of standard info/man pages. Anyways, it's completely broken as-is. I also though it could be treecleaned until I saw patches to fix that issues are included in: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388927 Okay, I suppose people do use it. I'd like to start an app-doc herd (I think vapier and me have half of app-doc/* covered anyways). This would fit in there. In the meantime I'll take it. Any news on this herd creation? Looks like that package is still in maintainer-needed domain, for now I have fixed all his bugs I think, but better create that one for this and other packages that could benefit from active maintainers :) Oops, forgot. Added myself now. -- fonts, gcc-porting toolchain, wxwidgets @ gentoo.org signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs due bass retirement
El lun, 19-03-2012 a las 21:20 -0600, Ryan Hill escribió: On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:34:22 +0100 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: El dom, 18-03-2012 a las 23:56 -0600, Ryan Hill escribió: On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:25:58 +0100 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: Due his retirement the following packages need a new maintainer: app-doc/ebookmerge This is something bass wrote that grabs html manuals from http://htmlhelp.berlios.de (which doesn't exist anymore - it moved to http://code.google.com/p/htmlhelp/). I don't really see the usefulness of it since almost all of the content is just html versions of standard info/man pages. Anyways, it's completely broken as-is. I also though it could be treecleaned until I saw patches to fix that issues are included in: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388927 Okay, I suppose people do use it. I'd like to start an app-doc herd (I think vapier and me have half of app-doc/* covered anyways). This would fit in there. In the meantime I'll take it. Any news on this herd creation? Looks like that package is still in maintainer-needed domain, for now I have fixed all his bugs I think, but better create that one for this and other packages that could benefit from active maintainers :) Thanks signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs due bass retirement
On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:34:22 +0100 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: El dom, 18-03-2012 a las 23:56 -0600, Ryan Hill escribió: On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:25:58 +0100 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: Due his retirement the following packages need a new maintainer: app-doc/ebookmerge This is something bass wrote that grabs html manuals from http://htmlhelp.berlios.de (which doesn't exist anymore - it moved to http://code.google.com/p/htmlhelp/). I don't really see the usefulness of it since almost all of the content is just html versions of standard info/man pages. Anyways, it's completely broken as-is. I also though it could be treecleaned until I saw patches to fix that issues are included in: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388927 Okay, I suppose people do use it. I'd like to start an app-doc herd (I think vapier and me have half of app-doc/* covered anyways). This would fit in there. In the meantime I'll take it. -- fonts, gcc-porting toolchain, wxwidgets @ gentoo.org signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs due bass retirement
On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:25:58 +0100 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: Due his retirement the following packages need a new maintainer: app-doc/ebookmerge This is something bass wrote that grabs html manuals from http://htmlhelp.berlios.de (which doesn't exist anymore - it moved to http://code.google.com/p/htmlhelp/). I don't really see the usefulness of it since almost all of the content is just html versions of standard info/man pages. Anyways, it's completely broken as-is. -- fonts, gcc-porting toolchain, wxwidgets @ gentoo.org signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs due bass retirement
El dom, 18-03-2012 a las 23:56 -0600, Ryan Hill escribió: On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:25:58 +0100 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: Due his retirement the following packages need a new maintainer: app-doc/ebookmerge This is something bass wrote that grabs html manuals from http://htmlhelp.berlios.de (which doesn't exist anymore - it moved to http://code.google.com/p/htmlhelp/). I don't really see the usefulness of it since almost all of the content is just html versions of standard info/man pages. Anyways, it's completely broken as-is. I also though it could be treecleaned until I saw patches to fix that issues are included in: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388927 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
