Alexe Stefan <stefanalex...@gmail.com> writes:
> Must eudev be 100% compatible with all the garbage that gets shoved > into udev to stay in ::gentoo? I don't see mdev being held to that > standard. Please don't top-post. mdev is not a provider of virtual/libudev and doesn't pretend to be via its pkgconfig file. > > On 9/12/23, Alexey Sokolov <alexey+gen...@asokolov.org> wrote: >> 11.09.2023 22:35, Sam James пишет: >>> >>> Alexey Sokolov <alexey+gen...@asokolov.org> writes: >>> >>>> 11.09.2023 22:21, Sam James пишет: >>>>> 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. >>>> >>>> Of course. Just like any other PR to any other project :) What's your >>>> point? >>> >>> I don't know what you mean. My point is none of that has been happening. >>> >> >> I see, ok. I would agree with you, however, the author of that PR is a >> member of eudev org, so I wouldn't say it's dead just yet. >> >>>> >>>>> Also note that the PR is a hack rather than a full implementation >>>>> of the functionality anyway, which may lead to runtime misbehaviour. >>>> >>>> And that's fine for programs which don't make use of the new API. >>>> >>> >>> and? Someone has to actually check that? >>> >>> >>> >> >> -- >> Best regards, >> Alexey "DarthGandalf" Sokolov >> >> >>
