On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 09:53:43PM +0000, Peter Stuge wrote: > John Helmert III wrote: > > > Jonas Stein wrote: > > > > # Dead upstream > > > > # Removal after 2023-01-01. Bug #881249. > > > > net-mail/vchkuser > > > > > > Was there an actual issue with the package that prompted you to do > > > this - something that a package maintainer should have resolved? > > > > > > I think it's a bad idea to remove a package if "Upstream Homepage and > > > SRC_URI is gone" and "Gentoo is the last distro with this package" > > > are the only reasons... > > > > Do you use it? Is it still functional? > > I don't use it, I use something else for the same task. > > Looking up the GitHub user that person seems present, just that > particular repo is no longer there. > > Searching for the repo name on GitHub finds this however: > > https://github.com/bdrewery/vchkuser > > ..which seems to be a 2010 version of the code. I did a test, it works > fine. Maybe just change the SRC_URI.
Can you produce a guarantee that the code there is equal to the code which the ebuild currently refers to? Or maybe that it's equivalent to the now-removed repository? > > //Peter >
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