[opensuse-factory] recode dropped? OR: software.o.o claims recode for TW exists, but does not exist
Hi, I was looking for recode for 15.0. Since official repo does not have it, I was looking in software.o.o
https://software.opensuse.org/package/recode
No Official package for 15.0, but it says there is a official package for TW: The link to OBS goes to Factory, where is no package recode (any longer). The download link has a 32bit drop-down only (!), but this ends in a 404 Error.
So 4 questions arise: Was recode dropped deliberately? If yes, { What is the recommended replacement - iconv? Whom do I have to contact about the stale package? } else { How should I proceed to get it back in TW and 15.0? }
On Friday 2018-09-07 09:38, Andreas Vetter wrote:
Hi, I was looking for recode for 15.0. Since official repo does not have it, I was looking in software.o.o
Feels like an outdated database.
So 4 questions arise: Was recode dropped deliberately? If yes, { What is the recommended replacement - iconv?
Exactly, iconv.
Whom do I have to contact about the stale package? } else { How should I proceed to get it back in TW and 15.0? }
Quoting Jan Engelhardt jengelh@inai.de:
On Friday 2018-09-07 09:38, Andreas Vetter wrote:
Hi, I was looking for recode for 15.0. Since official repo does not have it, I was looking in software.o.o
Feels like an outdated database.
So 4 questions arise: Was recode dropped deliberately? If yes, { What is the recommended replacement - iconv?
Exactly, iconv.
I used recode to convert umlauts and the like from iso to html. It seems to me iconv does not offer this?
Whom do I have to contact about the stale package? } else { How should I proceed to get it back in TW and 15.0? }
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Friday 2018-09-07 09:38, Andreas Vetter wrote:
Hi, I was looking for recode for 15.0. Since official repo does not have it, I was looking in software.o.o
Feels like an outdated database.
OBS for some reason thinks that there is still an i586 package of recode in Factory:
osc se --binary recode
cu Ludwig
On Fri, 2018-09-07 at 07:38 +0000, Andreas Vetter wrote:
So 4 questions arise: Was recode dropped deliberately?
It was dropped for SLES because it's a dead project and is not deemed supportable.
I'm not sure why it had to be dropped for openSUSE as well. I guess you could step in as maintainer and have it re-added. On github, someone new took over the project from the original author, so perhaps it is _not_ dead after all.
https://github.com/rrthomas/recode
If yes, { What is the recommended replacement - iconv? Whom do I have to contact about the stale package? } else { How should I proceed to get it back in TW and 15.0? }
-- Mit freundlichen Gruessen, Andreas Vetter
For the time being, you could get recode from Base:System.
https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Base:/System/openSUSE_Factory/Bas...
Martin
On 2018-09-07 03:38, Andreas Vetter wrote:
Hi, I was looking for recode for 15.0. Since official repo does not have it, I was looking in software.o.o
https://software.opensuse.org/package/recode
No Official package for 15.0, but it says there is a official package for TW: The link to OBS goes to Factory, where is no package recode (any longer). The download link has a 32bit drop-down only (!), but this ends in a 404 Error.
So 4 questions arise: Was recode dropped deliberately? If yes, { What is the recommended replacement - iconv? Whom do I have to contact about the stale package? } else { How should I proceed to get it back in TW and 15.0? }
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Date: 23 Jan 2018 21:56:00 +0100 From: Michael Hirmke mh@mike.franken.de Reply-To: OS-en opensuse@opensuse.org Subject: [opensuse] recode missing since before last snaphot
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