On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 15:52 +0200, Jakub Moc wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I've filed a bug about slang-2 version bump [1] more than one year ago. > As it hasn't moved anywhere, I'm sending a call for maintainer here. > It's a pretty important bump for UTF-8 compatibility and is really > needed to get rid of those hackish slang UTF-8 patches in stuff like > app-misc/mc that just tend to break stuff.
Just a bit of background since I'm listed as the maintainer. I took an interest in this package because it was a direct dependency on a package I maintained, app-editors/jed. Then CJK came along and applied a bunch of patches and somewhere along the line, CJK became the primary maintainer because no one else would. As for slang-2, there was no immediate package that required version 2, and I could never get the submitted ebuilds to compile for me, so I left the bug alone. I would be grateful for someone to take over this who might have more of an interest in this library as CJK isn't exactly the most manned herd around. Just a note for any future maintainers, app-editors/jed-0.99.16 will not work with slang-2. I believe the newer version that was released in April will (although I only just found out about this release today.) Cheers, Alastair -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
