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> напісаў(ла):
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.com/pinard/Recode/ If you like to become a maintainer I can set you as maintainer/bugowner of package recode Werner [1] http://http.debian.net/debian/pool/main/r/recode/recode_3.6-23.debian.tar.xz -- "Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like having a peeing section in a swimming pool." -- Edward Burr