On 06/11/2017 01:44 PM, Baptiste Jonglez wrote: > On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 10:49:29PM +0200, Baptiste Jonglez wrote: >> dbus-c++ [1] is orphaned, but needs some love to work with GCC 7. >> Currently, it does not build, and also prevents its reverse dependencies >> [2,3,4] from building. Apparently, Fedora has patches to fix this [5]. >> >> I would be happy to maintain dbus-c++, however it would first need to be >> moved to [community] (as well as libffado [2]). Is this ok? > > Is this possible, and if so, who has the right to move the packages from > [extra] to [community]? > > If somebody else wants to adopt dbus-c++ and fix it, that's be fine too :) > > Thanks, > Baptiste > > >> [1] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/dbus-c++/ >> [2] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/libffado/ >> [3] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/kimtoy/ >> [4] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ring-daemon/ >> [5] http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/dbus-c++.git/log/?h=f26
I'll move it tomorrow (unless someone beats me to it). We should probably give up on the self-contained [extra] rule as it causes more problems than it solves. Bartłomiej

