On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 9:24 PM YUE Daian <sheepd...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Recently I posted a bug report to Gentoo Bugzilla and submitted a > request to add package Roswell into the package tree. > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/638446 > > But...in fact it was not "recent" at all! I submitted the bug one year > ago and there is literally no news after some point. > > Is there anything I can do more?
You can always host it in an overlay, or try submitting it to proxy-maintainers. Volunteering to proxy-maintain the package would probably also help - that basically involves committing to keep it up to date and deal with bugs/etc. The obvious QA issue I could think of with putting this in the main repo is where it sticks its files and how well-behaved it is. When it installs lisp packages does it keep them in some kind of tidy area that isn't going to step on the rest of the filesystem? Language-specific package managers can sometimes be messy in that way. My guess though is that this reflects a lack of interest in lisp more than any specific criticism. If somebody had a criticism they'd have pointed it out. I didn't look at your package too closely but one little tweak you should make is something like: SRC_URI="https://github.com/roswell/roswell/archive/v${PV}.zip -> ${P}.zip" That makes it easier to maintain by renaming the package version number, and it also cleans up the filename in the distfiles cache (and on the mirrors). -- Rich
