On 23.06.2018 05:50, Marty E. Plummer wrote: > So, as you may be aware I've been doing some work on moving bzip2 to an > autotools based build. Recently I've ran into app-crypt/mhash, which is > in a semi-abandoned state (talking with the maintainer on twitter atm), > and I was thinking it may be a good idea to set up a project for keeping > these semi-abandoned and really-abandoned libraries and projects up to > date and such.
But how would it serve gentoo itself? Lots of packages in the distro have dead upstream but still work. Why would you want to make gentoo an upstream area rather than moving a dead project itself, say, to github and do the job there? > > Basically, an upstream for packages who's upstream is either > uncontactable or is otherwise not accepting bug fixes and patches. So > far I can only think of app-crypt/mhash and app-arch/bzip2 but I'm sure > there are others in this state. >
signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
