Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: media-gfx/gmic

2023-10-25 Thread Eli Schwartz
On 10/25/23 9:29 PM, Jonas Stein wrote: > Hi Marecki, > > this is a very powerful package with many users. > Thank you for maintaining it till now. > > Could you address the exact problems to upstream, so they are aware and > can improve it? > I think not only Gentoo, but also other distributions

[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: media-gfx/gmic

2023-10-25 Thread Jonas Stein
Hi Marecki, this is a very powerful package with many users. Thank you for maintaining it till now. Could you address the exact problems to upstream, so they are aware and can improve it? I think not only Gentoo, but also other distributions suffer if it does not build smooth. Looks to me as

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: media-gfx/gmic

2023-10-25 Thread Marek Szuba
Upstream uses a massive home-made Makefile which has since the beginning required massive amounts of patching to make it behave reasonably (as well as to fix the problems which ostensibly led upstream to abandoning CMake, and which they immediately re-introduced in their NIH solution) and which if