[gentoo-dev] [RFC] Addition of a new field to metadata.xml

2017-06-01 Thread Jonas Stein
translation packages, or just add them all? -- Best regards, Jonas Stein

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Addition of a new field to metadata.xml

2017-06-01 Thread Jonas Stein
ools. That is a very good point. We should note it as you suggested, because it fits better to xml. Thank you. Best, -- Jonas Stein

[gentoo-dev] gna.org shutdown requires ~80 ebuilds without maintainer to be fixed

2017-06-11 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, Sylvain from the gna.org team announced on 2016-11-20 to shut down the repository [1]. Today we have still ~80 ebuilds with gna.org in the SRC_URI and/or HOMEPAGE variables in the tree. Unfortunately these ebuilds have no maintainer. A list is online [2] Please fix the ebuilds, in orde

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] Should the compressed archive of an executable file be executable too?

2017-06-18 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, if we compress an executable script hello.sh with bzip2 or gzip the result is a file hello.sh.bz2 or hello.sh.gz with executable permissions. However it is not executable, of course. ./hello.sh.bz2 "cannot execute binary file: Exec format error" One can not blame bzip2 for it, because

Re: [gentoo-dev] taking a break from arches stabilization

2017-07-10 Thread Jonas Stein
Hi Agostino, at first I want to thank you for the many contributions. There should be a "thank you" parameter in emerge for every installed package. It would be so motivating to see that many user are glad about a special package. One gets rarely feedback. I understand your decision and perhaps i

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC pre-GLEP] Gentoo Git Workflow

2017-07-25 Thread Jonas Stein
Hi everyone, > Here's the current draft: > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:MGorny/GLEP:Git > > The basic idea is that the GLEP provides basic guidelines for using git, > and then we write a proper manual on top of it (right now, all the pages > about it end up as a mix of requirements and a par

Re: [gentoo-dev] Allow variable refs in HOMEPAGE

2017-08-03 Thread Jonas Stein
Hi Mike, > I would like to remove the ban on variable references in the HOMEPAGE > variable in ebuilds. > > As I understand it, this ban was put in place so that people can > easily copy/paste from an ebuild to a web browser. It made it also possible to grep through the packages and find thousan

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-text/adiff

2017-08-29 Thread Jonas Stein
# Jonas Stein (29 Aug 2017) # SRC_URI and HOMEPAGE are dead and the ebuild is in a very bad # state. # Removal in 30 days. #629112. app-text/adiff -- Best regards, Jonas Stein signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2017-10-01 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, The following packages are up for grabs: dev-db/mydumper dev-php/pecl-gearman sys-apps/timer_entropyd sys-cluster/gearmand -- Best, Jonas signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2017-10-03 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, The following packages are up for grabs: sys-auth/ykpers sys-auth/ykclient sys-auth/libyubikey -- Best, Jonas signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs x11-wm/lumina

2017-10-03 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, The following packages are up for grabs: x11-wm/lumina -- Best, Jonas signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs media-gfx/pixie

2017-10-04 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, The following packages are up for grabs: media-gfx/pixie -- Best, Jonas signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: app-text/aiksaurus

2017-10-07 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, The following packages are up for grabs: app-text/aiksaurus -- Best, Jonas signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs dev-vcs/monotone

2017-10-07 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, The following packages are up for grabs: dev-vcs/monotone -- Best, Jonas signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs sys-fs/avfs

2017-10-08 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, The following packages are up for grabs: sys-fs/avfs -- Best, Jonas signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs net-im/pyaim-t

2017-10-09 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, The following packages are up for grabs: net-im/pyaim-t after retirement of the proxied maintainer. -- Best, Jonas signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: net-im/pyaim-t

2017-10-10 Thread Jonas Stein
# Jonas Stein (10 Oct 2017) # Depends on the AIM service which will be discontinued on 2017-12-15. # See also bug #633914. Masked for removal on 2017-12-20 net-im/pyaim-t -- Best regards, Jonas Stein signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: net-im/pyaim-t, net-im/pork and net-im/reaim

2017-10-10 Thread Jonas Stein
Here the updated list: # Jonas Stein (10 Oct 2017) # Depends on the AIM service which will be discontinued on 2017-12-15. # See also bug #633914. Masked for removal on 2017-12-20 net-im/pyaim-t net-im/pork net-im/reaim -- Best regards, Jonas Stein signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: dev-python/wsgilog

2017-10-10 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, The following packages are up for grabs: dev-python/wsgilog after retirement of the proxied maintainer. If you are interested, you can try to bump simply to dev-python/wsgilog-0.3.1 https://bugs.gentoo.org/633982 -- Best, Jonas signature.asc Description: OpenPGP di

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: net-misc/slimrat

2017-10-10 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, The following packages are up for grabs: net-misc/slimrat after retirement of the proxied maintainer. This tool has only a - ebuild, several QA warnings and relies on the obsolete google repository. I think it needs some care, or should get last rites soon. -- Best, Jonas

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: app-backup/backupninja

2017-10-10 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, The following packages are up for grabs: app-backup/backupninja after retirement of the proxied maintainer. A user provided a new ebuild (still needs some work...) https://bugs.gentoo.org/578068 backupninja is available in many other distributions it would be nice to keep it in a goo

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: dev-python/python-gudev

2017-10-10 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, The following packages are up for grabs: dev-python/python-gudev after retirement of the proxied maintainer. The ebuild has QA warnings: inherit.deprecated1 dev-python/python-gudev/python-gudev-147.2-r1.ebuild: please migrate from 'autotools-utils' (no replacement) on

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: x11-wm/echinus

2017-10-11 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, The following packages are up for grabs: x11-wm/echinus after retirement of the proxied maintainer. Upstream did not release a version after 2011. http://plhk.ru/ A bump from EAPI=4 to EAPI=6 would be nice, if the package is still usefull. -- Best, Jonas signature

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: www-client/elinks

2017-10-11 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, The following packages are up for grabs: www-client/elinks after retirement of the proxied maintainer. www-client/elinks has several open bug tickets. Some with patches: https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=www-client%2Felinks Upstream did not release for decades, but deve

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: app-misc/goobook

2017-10-13 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, The following packages are up for grabs: app-misc/goobook after retirement of the proxied maintainer. https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-misc/goobook The package is available on many large distributions: https://repology.org/metapackage/goobook/versions -- Best, Jonas

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: x11-plugins/pidgin-mbpurple

2017-10-15 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, The following packages are up for grabs: x11-plugins/pidgin-mbpurple after retirement of the proxied maintainer. https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/x11-plugins/pidgin-mbpurple The EAPI=2 ebuild has very bad quality. I can not test, if it is still usable at all, but I doubt that a 8

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-tex/texmfind

2017-10-16 Thread Jonas Stein
# Jonas Stein (17 Oct 2017) # dev-tex/texmfind was superseded by app-portage/pfl # See also bug #634494. Masked for removal on 2017-11-30 dev-tex/texmfind -- Best regards, Jonas Stein signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: net-analyzer/hexinject

2017-10-19 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, The following packages are up for grabs: net-analyzer/hexinject after retirement of the proxied maintainer. In fact is was not maintained since years, because someone forgot to remove the proxy-maint team as maintainer. https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/net-analyzer/hexinject Rece

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo QA Help

2017-10-21 Thread Jonas Stein
Hi Michael, > As some of you may noticed i started to clean up some old patches in the > gentoo portage tree. I did so already a while ago, and like before I'm > using a small script in order to identify unused patches. > > I few days ago i started to hack again on that script and thought about >

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: app-text/rnv

2017-10-28 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, The following packages are up for grabs: app-text/rnv after retirement of the proxied maintainer. (https://bugs.gentoo.org/632784) https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-text/rnv The ebuild makes repoman sad KEYWORDS.dropped 1 app-text/rnv/rnv-1.7.11-r1.ebuild: pp

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: sys-process/parallel

2017-10-28 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, The following packages are up for grabs: sys-process/parallel after retirement of the proxied maintainer. (https://bugs.gentoo.org/633090) https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/sys-process/parallel The ebuild was defacto maintained by several gentoo developers who kept the package up

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: sys-process/parallel

2017-10-29 Thread Jonas Stein
> Possibly worth CC'ing to the proxy-maint ML too? No, I do not think so. Cross postings must be avoided where possible. -- Best, Jonas signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: media-video/rovclock

2017-10-29 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, The following packages are up for grabs: media-video/rovclock after retirement of the proxied maintainer. (https://bugs.gentoo.org/632896 was also upstream) https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/media-video/rovclock The primary question is, if it is worth to keep it in the tree: The

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: dev-embedded/avra

2017-10-29 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, The following packages are up for grabs: dev-embedded/avra after retirement of the proxied maintainer. (https://bugs.gentoo.org/633094) https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/dev-embedded/avra A bump to EAPI=6 would be a good new start for this package. Upstream made the last release i

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: x11-misc/sunflower

2017-10-29 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, The following packages are up for grabs: x11-misc/sunflower after retirement of the proxied maintainer. https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/x11-misc/sunflower Description: Small and highly customizable twin-panel file manager with plugin-support I think cleaning the ebuild and a

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: net-misc/pavuk

2017-10-29 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, The following packages are up for grabs: net-misc/pavuk after retirement of the proxied maintainer. https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/net-misc/pavuk The package is in a bad state and has open bugs: https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=net-misc%2Fpavuk We should last ri

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: sys-boot/os-prober

2017-10-29 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, The following packages are up for grabs: sys-boot/os-prober after retirement of the proxied maintainer. https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/sys-boot/os-prober The package was maintained by other gentoo developers since years. * sys-boot/os-prober Available versions: 1.71 ~1.74 ~1

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: sys-kernel/zen-sources

2017-10-29 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, The following packages are up for grabs: sys-kernel/zen-sources after retirement of the proxied maintainer. https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/sys-kernel/zen-sources The package was maintained by other gentoo developers since years, but needs a version bump and should use a newer

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: dev-libs/stlsoft

2017-10-29 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, The following packages are up for grabs: dev-libs/stlsoft after retirement of the proxied maintainer. https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/dev-libs/stlsoft The package was maintained by other gentoo developers since years, but needs an EAPI bump from 4 -> 6 and should use a better D

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: app-misc/jail (perl)

2017-10-29 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, The following packages are up for grabs: app-misc/jail after retirement of the proxied maintainer. https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-misc/jail The proxied maintainer was also upstream. Jail is a Perl tool that builds a chroot and configures all the required files, directorie

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: net-libs/http-parser

2017-10-29 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, The following packages are up for grabs: net-libs/http-parser after retirement of the proxied maintainer. https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/net-libs/http-parser The package is already in EAPI=6 and in a good state. -- Best, Jonas signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: net-ftp/atftp

2017-10-30 Thread Jonas Stein
> I haven't used atftp in a *long* time and upstream is either dead > or has entered a time capsule on SF.net. > > Open bugs: https://bugs.gentoo.org/513486 net-ftp/atftp - increase BKLSIZE https://bugs.gentoo.org/635786 net-ftp/atftp-0.7-r5 : neither HOMEPAGE nor originalSRC_URI available any mo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Manifest2 hashes, take n+1-th

2017-11-08 Thread Jonas Stein
Hi "R0b0t1", >>> For the record, I'd claim I am. The question > On what basis? is ok, but > I performed a search on your name, and found at least > one person who was belligerently calling you a liar [..] does not fit here. Please keep this dirt away from our mailinglist and stay professional.

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: sci-geosciences/gmapcatcher

2017-11-10 Thread Jonas Stein
# Jonas Stein (10 Nov 2017) # sci-geosciences/gmapcatcher violates the license of several images. # The package is unmaintained. Upstream will not / can not fix this. # See also bug #624046. Masked for removal on 2017-12-12 sci-geosciences/gmapcatcher -- Best regards, Jonas Stein

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: app-misc/activylircd

2017-11-10 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, The following packages are up for grabs: app-misc/activylircd after retirement of the proxied maintainer. https://bugs.gentoo.org/633098 https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-misc/activylircd The package still uses EAPI=4. It has no open bugs. -- Best, Jonas

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-misc/activylircd media-plugins/vdr-alcd

2017-11-11 Thread Jonas Stein
# Jonas Stein (11 Nov 2017) # The upstream developer and former maintainer asked to treeclean these # packages, because they can be used only with the Siemens Mediacenter # Activy 3xx which was produced till 2005. He confirmed, that no user # is left who needs the package from our tree for this

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] fdo-mime.eclass: Mark the eclass as deprecated

2017-11-12 Thread Jonas Stein
On 19/06/17 15:20, Michał Górny wrote: > The GNOME team has committed the xdg-utils.eclass serving exactly > the same purpose as fdo-mime.eclass, supposedly with the goal of > replacing it. However, it seems that they have never bothered to > actually hint the deprecation in the fdo-mime.eclass in

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: net-analyzer/ripe-atlas-tools and friends

2017-11-14 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, The following packages are up for grabs: net-analyzer/ripe-atlas-tools net-libs/ripe-atlas-sagan www-client/ripe-atlas-cousteau after retirement of the proxied maintainer. https://bugs.gentoo.org/632796 https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/net-analyzer/ripe-atlas-tools https://package

[gentoo-dev] Eclass up for grabs: sgml-catalog.eclass

2017-11-18 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, The following eclass is up for grabs: sgml-catalog.eclass after retirement of the herd SGML long time ago. It seems it was forgotten to reassign. It is still used by a few packages https://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/eclass-usage/sgml-catalog.txt and a proxied maintainer is in progr

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2017-11-20 Thread Jonas Stein
> app-text/tree I will take care of this one. -- Best, Jonas signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: net-analyzer/aimsniff

2017-11-23 Thread Jonas Stein
# Jonas Stein (23 Nov 2017) # Depends on the AIM service which will be discontinued on 2017-12-15. # See also bug #638564. Masked for removal on 2017-12-20 net-analyzer/aimsniff -- Best regards, Jonas Stein signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Initial tests for full-tree Manifest verification (MetaManifest)

2017-11-25 Thread Jonas Stein
On 25/11/17 22:05, Michał Górny wrote: > Hi, everyone. > > Last night Infra has started deploying the initial version of full-tree > Manifest coverage (MetaManifest) on rsync mirrors. While things are not > yet fully settled down, we think it is ready for the initial public > testing. Thanks to a

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-tex/notoccite

2017-11-25 Thread Jonas Stein
# Jonas Stein (25 Nov 2017) # The latest version of this LaTeX package is part of # dev-texlive/texlive-latexextra # Masked for removal on 2017-12-30 dev-tex/notoccite -- Best regards, Jonas Stein signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-tex/isotope

2017-11-26 Thread Jonas Stein
# Jonas Stein (26 Nov 2017) # The latest version of this LaTeX package is part of # dev-texlive/texlive-latexextra (bug #421881) # Masked for removal on 2017-12-30 dev-tex/isotope -- Best regards, Jonas Stein signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: =media-gfx/yafaray-0.1.1

2017-11-29 Thread Jonas Stein
# Jonas Stein (29 Nov 2017) # The old yafaray-0.1.1 depends on qt4 and has bugs we can not fix. # (bug #321169) and (bug #595684) # Users of yafaray may be interested in >=yafaray-3.3.0 (bug #639046) # and its fork TheBounty (#639158) which require completely new ebuilds. # # The old and for

Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites: app-office/hamster-time-tracker

2017-12-07 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear Geaaru, > I will try to investigate on it in the christmas holidays and see if I can > take care of ebuild maintenance. To me it looks like a completely new ebuild is required in that case. Nice to hear that you want to proxy maintain it, you will find everything on our overhauled wiki site

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-arch/defluff

2017-12-10 Thread Jonas Stein
profiles: Last rite app-arch/defluff Last rite app-arch/defluff, because the download site blocks certain IP blocks from downloading files, while the package may not be mirrored. Masked for removal on 2018-01-12 Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/640508 -- Best regards, Jonas Stein signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2017-12-13 Thread Jonas Stein
Hi Thomas, > I've been interested in getting more involved with Gentoo - would > package maintenance be a good place to start? You can fix bugs for many packages, but you should only assign your self to a package, if you want to take care for bug reports in a long term. I suggest to make small fi

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-doc/linux-gazette

2017-12-27 Thread Jonas Stein
profiles: Last rite app-doc/linux-gazette Upstream deleted all files more than 6 years ago and is inactive. Masked for removal on 2018-02-01 app-doc/linux-gazette-base app-doc/linux-gazette-all app-doc/linux-gazette Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/628960 -- Best regards, Jonas Stein

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: media-sound/supercollider, media-gfx/maim, x11-misc/slop

2017-12-30 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, The following packages are up for grabs: media-sound/supercollider media-gfx/maim x11-misc/slop after retirement of the proxied maintainer. https://bugs.gentoo.org/615364 https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/media-sound/supercollider https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/media-gfx/maim

[gentoo-dev] rfc: Remove inherit eutils from font.eclass for EAPI=6

2018-02-14 Thread Jonas Stein
Hi, I think we do not need inherit eutils https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/blob/master/eclass/font.eclass#L9 for the case that EAPI=6 I suggest to change the line to [[ ${EAPI:-0} == [012345] ]] && inherit eutils we would have to test the following packages (the grep line does not list match

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: Remove inherit eutils from font.eclass for EAPI=6

2018-02-15 Thread Jonas Stein
Hi Mart, Ulrich and Guilherme, thank you very much for your helpful review and the nice grep. Sounds like a good plan. I will discuss with Guilherme how to proceed in detail on IRC and report back here. -- Best, Jonas signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: media-sound/lyvi

2018-02-16 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, The following packages are up for grabs: media-sound/lyvi after retirement of the proxied maintainer. https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/media-sound/lyvi The package is already in EAPI=5 and in a good state without open bugs. Lyvi is a lyrics, artist info and guitar tabs viewer. On

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: app-editors/bluefish

2018-03-06 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, The following packages are up for grabs: app-editors/bluefish after retirement of the proxied maintainer. https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-editors/bluefish The editor is quite famous and it would be nice to keep the ebuild in a good state. Todo: please migrate from 'fdo-mime'

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: dev-libs/libtar

2018-03-06 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, The following packages are up for grabs: dev-libs/libtar after retirement of the proxied maintainer. https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/dev-libs/libtar libtar is a C library for manipulating tar archives. Todo: please migrate from 'autotools-utils' (no replacement) -- Best, Jonas

[gentoo-dev] Proper dependencies for TeX related ebuilds

2018-03-26 Thread Jonas Stein
Hi, I just read https://bugs.gentoo.org/625908#c5 and saw that we do not have a good documentation on this and many packages in the tree ship with strange tex dependencies. I started a documentation on our wiki https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Notes_on_TeX_related_ebuilds Please help to complete it

[gentoo-dev] How to provide a recent TeXLive for Gentoo for our users?

2018-03-26 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, there was a question on the tex@gentoo ml from a user, who needs a very recent TeXLive in order to be compatible with other setups. This is also very important, for users of the more recent programs like lualatex. Many packages do not work properly in the unfixed old version. An install

Re: [gentoo-dev] How to provide a recent TeXLive for Gentoo for our users?

2018-03-26 Thread Jonas Stein
Hi Alexis, > The real reason is that we need to go through ~arch testing, fixing rev > deps that might need update to their .tex files because the underlying > packages they use has changed, adapt the deps for some potential > changes, and then a stablereq round. I agree. This makes the situatio

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: app-office/mdbtools

2018-04-01 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, The following packages are up for grabs: app-office/mdbtools after retirement of the proxied maintainer. https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-office/mdbtools "Set of libraries and utilities for reading Microsoft Access database (MDB) files" Todo: HOMEPAGE links to SF, but we dist

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: app-text/sigil

2018-04-03 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, The following packages are up for grabs: app-text/sigil no open bugs after retirement of the proxied maintainer. Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/632854 https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-text/sigil -- Best, Jonas signature.asc Descript

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: dev-libs/actor-framework

2018-04-03 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, The following packages are up for grabs: dev-libs/actor-framework open bugs https://bugs.gentoo.org/647548 after retirement of the proxied maintainer. https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/dev-libs/actor-framework -- Best, Jonas signatu

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: net-analyzer/bro

2018-04-03 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, The following packages are up for grabs: net-analyzer/bro after retirement of the proxied maintainer. https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/net-analyzer/bro (3 open bugs) -- Best, Jonas signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signatur

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: net-analyzer/ipsumdump

2018-04-03 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, The following packages are up for grabs: net-analyzer/ipsumdump after retirement of the proxied maintainer. https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/net-analyzer/ipsumdump (no open bugs) -- Best, Jonas signature.asc Description: OpenPGP d

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: net-analyzer/check_mk

2018-04-05 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, The following packages are up for grabs: net-analyzer/check_mk by decision of the proxied maintainer. https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/net-analyzer/check_mk The ebuilds are broken: https://bugs.gentoo.org/652634 net-analyzer/check_mk dependency.unknown Open security bug: https://

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: x11-themes/clearlooks-phenix

2018-04-06 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, The following packages are up for grabs: x11-themes/clearlooks-phenix after retirement of the proxied maintainer. https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/x11-themes/clearlooks-phenix The package looks easy to maintain. Should be bumped to EAPI=6, check paths. -- Best, Jonas

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: media-gfx/splashutils

2018-04-07 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, The following packages are up for grabs: media-gfx/splashutils after retirement of the proxied maintainer due to inactivity. https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/media-gfx/splashutils There are 16 open bugs and patches. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=media-gfx%2Fspla

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: sys-apps/udevil and media-video/subdownloader

2018-04-08 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, The following packages are up for grabs: media-video/subdownloader (PMASKED) sys-apps/udevil after retirement of the proxied maintainer. https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/sys-apps/udevil https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/media-video/subdownloader https://bugs.gentoo.org/649118

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: dev-lua/lua-openssl dev-lua/luaossl

2018-04-08 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, The following packages are up for grabs: dev-lua/lua-openssl dev-lua/luaossl after retirement of the proxied maintainer. https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/dev-lua/lua-openssl https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/dev-lua/luaossl There are 3 open bugs and patches. https://bugs.gento

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: media-plugins/gimp-lensfun

2018-04-09 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, The following packages are up for grabs: media-plugins/gimp-lensfun after retirement of the proxied maintainer. https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/media-plugins/gimp-lensfun It is the final release by upstream. We should bump EAPI 5-> 6 and stabilize. -- Best, Jonas

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: net-analyzer/chaosreader

2018-04-10 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, The following packages are up for grabs: net-analyzer/chaosreader after retirement of the proxied maintainer. https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/net-analyzer/chaosreader There is a bug which should be fixed: https://bugs.gentoo.org/638468 net-analyzer/chaosreader SRC_URI broken for

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: net-misc/nemesis

2018-04-10 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, The following packages are up for grabs: net-misc/nemesis after retirement of the proxied maintainer. https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/net-misc/nemesis -- Best, Jonas signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: dev-libs/MicroJSON, dev-libs/UTF8Strings

2018-04-12 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, The following packages are up for grabs: dev-libs/MicroJSON dev-libs/UTF8Strings after retirement of the proxied maintainer. https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/dev-libs/MicroJSON https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/dev-libs/UTF8Strings -- Best, Jonas

[gentoo-dev] rfc Bugzilla summary for packages in overlays [overlay] vs. ::overlay

2018-04-17 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, at the moment we suggest use the "standard format of the Summary" [1] [name_overlay] CATEGORY/PKG(-version(-revision)) - {problem description}/{action} However this is contrary to the format in our logfiles, which use CATEGORY/PKG(-version(-revision))::name_overlay - {problem descripti

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: media-gfx/swftools

2018-04-30 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, The following packages are up for grabs: media-gfx/swftools after retirement of the proxied maintainer. https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/media-gfx/swftools Todo: bump EAPI 5-> 6 and clean up the ebuild Fix 4 SECURITY bugs and https://bugs.gentoo.org/412423 -- Best, Jonas

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: Remove inherit eutils from font.eclass for EAPI=6

2018-05-05 Thread Jonas Stein
On 2018-02-15 13:07, Mart Raudsepp wrote: > On Thu, 2018-02-15 at 08:46 +0100, Guilherme Amadio wrote: >> Most of the above only use usex, and terminus-font uses einstalldocs >> as well. >> I think these should be pretty easy to fix to not use eutils, or >> simply >> add 'inherit eutils' for these

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: dev-libs/pcl

2018-05-19 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, The following packages are up for grabs: dev-libs/pcl after retirement of the proxied maintainer. https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/dev-libs/pcl It is the final release by upstream. We should bump to the latest EAPI and stabilize. As usual we can not tell how many, (if any) users

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: net-misc/sitecopy

2018-06-14 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, The following packages are up for grabs: net-misc/sitecopy after retirement of the proxied maintainer. https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/net-misc/sitecopy The package needs some care: https://bugs.gentoo.org/628664 sitecopy has a dead upstream and many open upstream bugs https://

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: app-backup/rdiff-backup, sys-power/acpi, app-i18n/man-pages-it,...

2018-06-18 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, The following packages are up for grabs: app-backup/rdiff-backup app-i18n/man-pages-it sys-power/acpi media-gfx/pinta net-libs/librsync after retirement of the proxied maintainer. He does not have any Gentoo system anymore and he has no idea when he will be able to install Gentoo again

Re: [gentoo-dev] Idea for a new project: gentoo-libs

2018-06-23 Thread Jonas Stein
On 2018-06-23 04:57, Marty E. Plummer wrote: > On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 09:50:50PM -0500, 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 (talkin

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: app-text/odt2txt, app-forensics/...

2018-06-26 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, The following packages are up for grabs: app-forensics/ovaldi app-forensics/yasat app-forensics/openscap dev-python/pybloomfiltermmap net-analyzer/w3af sys-kernel/cryptodev app-text/odt2txt after retirement of the proxied maintainer. https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-forensics

[gentoo-dev] Google Code shutdown requires 524 ebuilds to be fixed before end of 2016

2016-11-04 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, Google announced in 2015 to close the "Google Code" repositories [1]. They will provide the repositories in read only state till end of 2016. Today we have still 524 ebuilds with SRC_URI=*googlecode* in the tree [2] and should get these fixed before end of 2016. If you maintain one of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Google Code shutdown requires 524 ebuilds to be fixed before end of 2016

2016-11-04 Thread Jonas Stein
> Apologies, getting ahead of myself here .. there must be a portage > utility, but I've forgotten which one interrogates metadata .. I'll > defer to a more authoritative source ... You can try to fetch the maintainers per package with equery meta -mH foo/bar Best, -- Jonas

Re: [gentoo-dev] Google Code shutdown requires 524 ebuilds to be fixed before end of 2016

2016-11-04 Thread Jonas Stein
>> If you maintain one of these packages, please fix the SRC_URI and >> HOMEPAGE variables. > It would probably be better if the output included the maintainer. Yes, that is a good idea. cat googlecode-shutdown.txt | cut -f1 -d":" | xargs equery meta -mH | grep "\@" | sort | uniq | sed "s/@/__/g

Re: [gentoo-dev] Google Code shutdown requires 524 ebuilds to be fixed before end of 2016

2016-12-20 Thread Jonas Stein
>> Today we have still 524 ebuilds with SRC_URI=*googlecode* in the tree >> [2] and should get these fixed before end of 2016. > > Thanks! > > I suggest adding repoman check for those ebuilds > if it does not already exist. It will allow users spot > ticking bombs in their overlays. Sergei, than

Re: [gentoo-dev] Google Code shutdown requires 524 ebuilds to be fixed before end of 2016

2016-12-20 Thread Jonas Stein
On 2016-11-05 08:47, Michał Górny wrote: > Thou shalt not rely on the mirrors! Though mirrors as a temporary > solution are acceptable. As long as you don't turn it into 'wrong > SRC_URI is fine, the file is on the mirrors'. > Also, it would be nice not to have the berlios -> sourceforge crap > re

Re: [gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 85 bugs

2017-01-09 Thread Jonas Stein
> As gentoo-bot can ping me when my packages have Github PRs opened > against them, can we not get something set up to assign bugs > automatically, at least for the "easy" stuff. > > There is a chance this has already been set up - and its not on by > default because someone may get a rogue bug as

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stats: Gentoo developer commit timeline

2017-01-16 Thread Jonas Stein
Hi Michał, > Just a quick side project we've done a while ago. It's a timeline of > developer commit activity [1]. Code for data processing in [2]. I did > the data, Amynka prepared a nice JS to graph it. That is very impressive and motivating. Thank you! Is it difficult to add the sum of active

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: x11-misc/autocutsel

2022-02-06 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all the following packages are up for grabs after dropping desktop-misc x11-misc/autocutsel https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/x11-misc/autocutsel No open bugs, I did a version bump and an eapi bump before removing desktop-misc -- Best, Jonas

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-misc/emelfm2

2022-02-06 Thread Jonas Stein
# Jonas Stein (2022-02-06) # Dead upstream, unmaintained, open bugs. # Removal after 2022-04-01. Bug #832808. app-misc/emelfm2 https://bugs.gentoo.org/832808 -- Best, Jonas

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: x11-misc/lineakd

2022-02-08 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all the following packages are up for grabs after dropping desktop-misc: x11-misc/lineakd https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/x11-misc/lineakd -- Best, Jonas

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