[opensuse-packaging] Elinks: package dropping
Hi all, I am maintainer of Elinks web browser. I consider dropping it from Factory and in a second time from network/elinks because : * it has not received real updates from upstream for more than one year and a half [0] * I could not get in touch with any of the upstream developers * the project web page states that the last release is a pre release done in 2012 [1] * its bug tracking system is down [2] as well the mailing list [3] If anyone has really good reasons why I should not drop it or is interested in taking over maintainership, let me know, otherwise I will wait until the weekend and make a drop request. Regards, [0] https://repo.or.cz/elinks.git/shortlog [1] http://elinks.cz/ [2] http://bugzilla.elinks.cz/ [3] http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/elinks-dev/ -- Sébastien Poher -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org
On 08/01/2019 15.42, Sébastien 'sogal' Poher wrote:
Hi all,
I am maintainer of Elinks web browser. I consider dropping it from Factory and in a second time from network/elinks because : * it has not received real updates from upstream for more than one year and a half [0] * I could not get in touch with any of the upstream developers * the project web page states that the last release is a pre release done in 2012 [1] * its bug tracking system is down [2] as well the mailing list [3]
If anyone has really good reasons why I should not drop it or is interested in taking over maintainership, let me know, otherwise I will wait until the weekend and make a drop request.
I would prefer if you keep it. Reasons: * It just works :) * Other distributions also have it, e.g. https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=elinks in version "0.12~pre6" since multiple versions
Regards,
[0] https://repo.or.cz/elinks.git/shortlog [1] http://elinks.cz/ [2] http://bugzilla.elinks.cz/ [3] http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/elinks-dev/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org
Hello, On Tue, 08 Jan 2019, Oliver Kurz wrote:
On 08/01/2019 15.42, Sébastien 'sogal' Poher wrote:
I am maintainer of Elinks web browser. I consider dropping it from Factory and in a second time from network/elinks because : * it has not received real updates from upstream for more than one year and a half [0] * I could not get in touch with any of the upstream developers * the project web page states that the last release is a pre release done in 2012 [1] * its bug tracking system is down [2] as well the mailing list [3]
If anyone has really good reasons why I should not drop it or is interested in taking over maintainership, let me know, otherwise I will wait until the weekend and make a drop request.
I would prefer if you keep it.
Reasons: * It just works :) * Other distributions also have it, e.g. https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=elinks in version "0.12~pre6" since multiple versions
Gentoo has it as well at 0.12_pre6-r{1,4} with these URIs: HOMEPAGE="http://elinks.or.cz/" SRC_URI="http://elinks.or.cz/download/${MY_P}.tar.bz2" (plus some js185 patches) but it also has a elinks-0.13_pre_pre20180225 ebuild with these URIs: HOMEPAGE="http://elinks.or.cz/" EGIT_COMMIT="0dd3aaabe61fbc5ed0d9a74915678d11d00c2a1c" SRC_URI="https://github.com/rkd77/felinks/archive/${EGIT_COMMIT}.tar.gz" Someone took up the code and forked it (the HOMEPAGE should point to https://github.com/rkd77/felinks ;) You can browse the build file here for ideas: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/www-client/elinks PM me if you need help understanding the ebuild and "port" it to a spec. See also: http://repo.or.cz/w/elinks.git though. Ain't dead yet ;) BTW: no comment on the gentoo-maintainer pulling in felinks just like that ... HTH, -dnh -- What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary. -- Richard Harkness, _The New York Times_, 1960 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org
Hello David,
Le Thu, 24 Jan 2019 16:24:09 +0100,
David Haller
On Tue, 08 Jan 2019, Oliver Kurz wrote:
On 08/01/2019 15.42, Sébastien 'sogal' Poher wrote:
I am maintainer of Elinks web browser. I consider dropping it from Factory and in a second time from network/elinks because : * it has not received real updates from upstream for more than one year and a half [0] * I could not get in touch with any of the upstream developers * the project web page states that the last release is a pre release done in 2012 [1] * its bug tracking system is down [2] as well the mailing list [3]
If anyone has really good reasons why I should not drop it or is interested in taking over maintainership, let me know, otherwise I will wait until the weekend and make a drop request.
I would prefer if you keep it.
Reasons: * It just works :) * Other distributions also have it, e.g. https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=elinks in version "0.12~pre6" since multiple versions
Gentoo has it as well at 0.12_pre6-r{1,4} with these URIs:
HOMEPAGE="http://elinks.or.cz/" SRC_URI="http://elinks.or.cz/download/${MY_P}.tar.bz2" (plus some js185 patches)
but it also has a elinks-0.13_pre_pre20180225 ebuild with these URIs:
HOMEPAGE="http://elinks.or.cz/" EGIT_COMMIT="0dd3aaabe61fbc5ed0d9a74915678d11d00c2a1c" SRC_URI="https://github.com/rkd77/felinks/archive/${EGIT_COMMIT}.tar.gz"
Someone took up the code and forked it (the HOMEPAGE should point to https://github.com/rkd77/felinks ;) You can browse the build file here for ideas: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/www-client/elinks
Sorry for late reply and thank you for the information. I did not know about 'felinks'. I will try to build it and see if it is a sane base for the elinks package. I hope that this fork is not a 'just for fun' fork and that it will be maintained.
PM me if you need help understanding the ebuild and "port" it to a spec.
Thank you but the ebuild format is quite similar and very readable :)
See also: http://repo.or.cz/w/elinks.git though.
Ain't dead yet ;)
Yep, just shaking a bit :) but there are only some refresh but no commits. I am not sure it is going anywhere :( -- 'When there is no more room at school, the dumb will walk the Earth.' Sébastien 'sogal' Poher
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