"Eddie Chapman" <ed...@ehuk.net> writes:
> Sam James 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. >> > > It seems there is work still ongoing to that end: > https://github.com/eudev-project/eudev/issues/249 That only adds a stub - which isn't guaranteed to work correctly. > > A quick look at the bug list in the original announcement today, they > appear to almost all be bugs for Gentoo maintainers to address rather than > upstream, and one or two it's questionable if they are actually bugs. I've improved the mask message. > > I think it is a rather large stretch to claim that upstream is dead, the > evidence just doesn't show that. > > So what's the situation with the current Gentoo maintainers? Have they > disappeared? I often see on here packages being offered up for grabs. Why > hasn't there been a call to give others the opportunity to volunteer as > maintainers rather than going straight to last riting the package? Or has > that happened and I've missed it, in which case I apologise. There was a year ago or so and nothing really came out of it. But see above wrt 'tags'.
