On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 22:21:21 +0100 Sam James <s...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> orbea <or...@riseup.net> writes: > > > On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 21:31:30 +0100 > > Sam James <s...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > >> Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> writes: > >> > >> > orbea wrote: > >> >> On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 17:29:47 +0200 > >> >> "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> >> > >> >>> Am Montag, 11. September 2023, 17:22:43 CEST schrieb orbea: > >> >>> > >> >>>> Upstream is maintained still. > >> >>>> > >> >>>> https://github.com/eudev-project/eudev > >> >>>> > >> >>> No, it's not. > >> >>> > >> >>> > >> >> Based on what? It has several commits this year and is currently > >> >> working on both of my systems. Is there something specific > >> >> showing why its not maintained? > >> >> > >> >> . > >> >> > >> > > >> > On the link above it says this: > >> > > >> > > >> > On 2021-08-20 Gentoo decided to abandon eudev and a new project > >> > was established on 2021-09-14 by Alpine, Devuan and Gentoo > >> > contributors (alphabetical order). > >> > > >> > > >> > It seems to have a upstream that is active but no one is > >> > maintaining it on Gentoo. Basically, it needs a Gentoo > >> > maintainer now. It would seem given the time span that no one > >> > wants to take it. > >> > > >> > Like others, I use it but didn't know it wasn't maintained > >> > anymore. I hope someone will step up but if not, looks like we > >> > have to use udev. > >> > >> No, see the linked bugs. Someone has to actually make it compatible > >> with the tags API which software is starting to use. > > > > I think its only a matter of time. > > > > https://github.com/eudev-project/eudev/pull/253 > > > > I'll apply the patch and test the builds if it helps, but I don't > > know about testing the runtime functionality of libgudev. > > Someone has to then bother reviewing it, merging it, releasing it, and > ideally updating eudev for other stuff like this. > > Also note that the PR is a hack rather than a full implementation > of the functionality anyway, which may lead to runtime misbehaviour. According to upstream it implement's systemd's fallback path as explained in this comment. https://github.com/eudev-project/eudev/issues/249#issuecomment-1675520914 However its fully possible to use Gentoo without requiring sticky-tags so I don't really see the urgency that requires removing software that has users that find it works for them. We even have the most recent upstream release which came out only a few months ago. > > > > >> > >> > > >> > Dale > >> > > >> > :-) :-) > >> > >> > >
