Tue, 09 Jan 2018 19:02:53 +0300 Knurpht - Gertjan Lettink <knurpht@opensuse.org> напісаў(ла):
Op dinsdag 9 januari 2018 16:36:03 CET schreef Dmitriy A. Perlow:
Tue, 09 Jan 2018 17:54:19 +0300 Tomas Chvatal <tchvatal@suse.cz>
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Dr. Werner Fink píše v Út 28. 11. 2017 v 10:19 +0100:
On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 03:32:58AM +0000, Dmitriy A. Perlow wrote:
Tue, 28 Nov 2017 01:09:35 +0300 Simon Lees <sflees@suse.de>
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On 28/11/17 08:30, Bjoern Voigt wrote: > Dr. Werner Fink wrote: > > there is a drop request against fortune[1]. I'd like to vote > > not > > to drop > > fortune even it it does not use iconv but recode. > > > > > > Werner > > > > [1] https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/545194 > > Could anyone please explain, why the Recode dependency of > Fortune is a > problem? > > Should Recode be dropped and why?
Recode is being dropped simply because it currently has no maintainer, for a package to be in openSUSE someone has to commit to maintain it. Whoever was doing this in the past doesn't want to anymore, so either someone else steps in to maintain it or it gets dropped.
OK. So if I take the maintainership will nothing be dropped? Is any real problem about recode?
Not that I'm aware ... I've compared with recode package from Debian at https://packages.debian.org/sid/recode and found similar patches and also a few more[1]. Only the Url http://recode.progiciels-bpi.ca seems to be dead but on github there is a perfect replacement https://github.c om/pinard/Recode/
If you like to become a maintainer I can set you as maintainer/bugowner of package recode
Francois is dead. So even if you have github you need to fork it and develop in there.
Anyway, it is 2 months now and neither nobody took over recode nor fortune got updated to not rely on recode. So what is the plan?
Also based on OBS data there is not even maintainer of the fortune itself should I again proceed with the drop as people planned only just to complain?
Cheers
Tom
Could you please point on bugs that have to be fixed? AFAI see both recode and fortune packages seem to be fine just now.
All these packages need are maintainers. As long as nobody steps up to do so ..... we simply cannot allow unmaintained packages / software in our distro. One word: exploits.
OK. Let me ( https://build.opensuse.org/user/show/DarkSS ) became the maintainer. -- Best regards, Dmitriy Perlow -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org