On 02-06-2011 18:20, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote:
I'd like to remove<net-print/foo2zjs-99999999. Non-live versions are
severely outdated (2008) and unusable (upstream changes tarballs
in-place, digest verification is broken).
The upstream doesn't support snapshots of the tarball, and claims the
auxiliary files cannot be redistributed.
I think the best course of action is to leave just the live ebuild (I'm
using it on one system that has a printer that requires it).
If there are no objections, I'm going to make the change. My guess is
that most people don't care about this abandoned package, and the people
who are using it will appreciate removal of the brokenness.
I use the foo2zjs package, and because other versions are broken, have
moved to the live version. But I think expecting a stable version in the
tree is not too much for a user. A tarball snapshot in a ~dev space
would solve the issue I presume.
Further problems with the current live ebuild are as follows. It seems
that I have forgotten to file bugs about these issues previously.
* Does not install PPD files (bug #369819)
* Does not use FOO2ZJS_DEVICES from previous versions, thus downloads
lots of tar files multiple times. (bug #369821)
Existance of previous ebuilds *currently*; allows for comparison,
detection, and hopefully fixing of these issues.
--
Gökdeniz Karadağ
