Re: Intent to retire: novacom-client, novacom-server

2022-08-17 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Jonathan Dieter wrote: > Unfortunately, this state of affairs has ended. Libusb, one of > novacom's dependencies has been retired, and it's not clear to me that > it's worthwhile (or even possible) to keep novacom alive. Does this not build against libusb-compat-0.1-devel? (That has been the rep

Re: Intent to retire: novacom-client, novacom-server

2022-08-17 Thread Jonathan Dieter
On Tue, 2022-08-16 at 22:28 -0500, Maxwell G via devel wrote: > On Tuesday, August 16, 2022 Jonathan Dieter wrote: > > So, unless I hear from someone who wants it within the next week and > > has a plan on how to fix the current FTBFS bug[2], on August 23, I will > > retire novacom-client[3] and no

Re: Intent to retire: novacom-client, novacom-server

2022-08-16 Thread Maxwell G via devel
On Tuesday, August 16, 2022 Jonathan Dieter wrote: > So, unless I hear from someone who wants it within the next week and > has a plan on how to fix the current FTBFS bug[2], on August 23, I will > retire novacom-client[3] and novacom-server[4]. I would suggest just orphaning the packages. This wa

Intent to retire: novacom-client, novacom-server

2022-08-16 Thread Jonathan Dieter
In the deep mists of time, I managed to get a HP Touchpad in the Great Fire Sale of 2011[1] and got to experiment with the Glorious System of Operation that was webOS. Next, naturally, was packaging up novacom, the webOS USB management tool (think the WebOS equivalent of adb), for Fedora. Despite