[gentoo-dev] dev-db/firebird needs an active maintainer

2007-05-10 Thread Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen
dev-db/firebird is without an active maintainer and have an open security bug #120343 ¹. Anyone willing to take care of this package in the future, please update metadata.xml and CC yourself on the bug. ¹ https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120343 -- Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Increasing contributions and interest via personal project aggregation

2007-05-10 Thread Naga
On Wednesday 09 May 2007 07.44.57 Donnie Berkholz wrote: Hi all, I'm sure I'm not the only one with a number of projects I'll never get to, but I'd really like them to happen anyway. I suggest we create some sort of page that aggregates all of these personal projects together, so anyone can

Re: [gentoo-dev] dev-db/firebird needs an active maintainer

2007-05-10 Thread Timothy Redaelli
Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen ha scritto: dev-db/firebird is without an active maintainer and have an open security bug #120343 ¹. Anyone willing to take care of this package in the future, please update metadata.xml and CC yourself on the bug. ¹

[gentoo-dev] invalid herd in metadata.xml

2007-05-10 Thread Thilo Bangert
Hi everybody, the following list of packages uses a invalid herd tag in its metadata.xml. Invalid in the sense of 'could-not-be-found-in-herds.xml' Most of them appear to be simple mis-spellings or minor misunderstandings. Others may lack an entry in herds.xml (s390?). AFAICT most packages

[gentoo-dev] missing metadata.xml

2007-05-10 Thread Thilo Bangert
Hi everybody, the packages in the attached list have no metadata.xml. The following basic metadata.xml will be added to each package in about 24 hours. Speak up to stop the insanity. Thanks. kind regards Thilo ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? !DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] missing herd tag in metadata.xml

2007-05-10 Thread Thilo Bangert
The metadata cleanup continues... A list of 427 packages found at http://dev.gentoo.org/~bangert/herd-metadata-check.log do not have the required herd tag in their metadata.xml[1]. Is it reasonable to simply add the herdno-herd/herd or should perhaps the policy be relaxed, such

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] missing herd tag in metadata.xml

2007-05-10 Thread Mike Doty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thilo Bangert wrote: The metadata cleanup continues... A list of 427 packages found at http://dev.gentoo.org/~bangert/herd-metadata-check.log do not have the required herd tag in their metadata.xml[1]. Is it reasonable to

Re: [gentoo-dev] dev-db/firebird needs an active maintainer

2007-05-10 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 12:20 +0200, Timothy Redaelli wrote: Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen ha scritto: dev-db/firebird is without an active maintainer and have an open security bug #120343 ¹. Anyone willing to take care of this package in the future, please update metadata.xml and CC

Re: [gentoo-dev] invalid herd in metadata.xml

2007-05-10 Thread Steve Dibb
Hi everybody, the following list of packages uses a invalid herd tag in its metadata.xml. Invalid in the sense of 'could-not-be-found-in-herds.xml' FWIW, I've been providing similar results on a daily basis for some time now at GPNL (Gentoo Packages that Need Lovin) website:

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] missing herd tag in metadata.xml

2007-05-10 Thread Thilo Bangert
Is it reasonable to simply add the herdno-herd/herd or should perhaps the policy be relaxed, such that a missing herd tag is equivalent with herdno-herd/herd? iirc there was a flamewar about this a while ago. you should look at the archives to see what people decided. whatever the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Optional Package Dependencies for netscape-flash - libflashsupport

2007-05-10 Thread Patrick McLean
Jim Ramsay wrote: 1) Create a single local USE flag (flashsupport or something) that will just pull in this dependency. 2) Use the same set of USE flags as libflashsupport has, with any of them adding libflashsupport to the dep list, since these are all global flags and will most likely

Re: [gentoo-dev] Optional Package Dependencies for netscape-flash - libflashsupport

2007-05-10 Thread Olivier Crête
On Thu, 2007-10-05 at 14:20 -0400, Patrick McLean wrote: Jim Ramsay wrote: 1) Create a single local USE flag (flashsupport or something) that will just pull in this dependency. 2) Use the same set of USE flags as libflashsupport has, with any of them adding libflashsupport to the

Re: [gentoo-dev] invalid herd in metadata.xml

2007-05-10 Thread Doug Goldstein
Thilo Bangert wrote: Hi everybody, the following list of packages uses a invalid herd tag in its metadata.xml. Invalid in the sense of 'could-not-be-found-in-herds.xml' Most of them appear to be simple mis-spellings or minor misunderstandings. Others may lack an entry in herds.xml

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] missing herd tag in metadata.xml

2007-05-10 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 10 May 2007 19:38:13 Thilo Bangert wrote: /me goes back to reading up on some history: missing metadata.xml - 2006-11-22 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/44407 -- Bo Andresen signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-dev] Re: invalid herd in metadata.xml

2007-05-10 Thread Stefan Schweizer
Thilo Bangert wrote: All packages with herdmaintainer-needed/herd will be moved to herdno-herd/herd. I think that is not quite right, and since maintainer-needed is not a maintainer but multiple people listening to the alias and users I would like to suggest the following addition to herds.xml

[gentoo-dev] Last rites sys-apps/855resolution

2007-05-10 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
Hello All, sys-apps/915resolution superseed this package and support 855 configurations. Please upgrade your configuration to sys-apps/915resolution. Comments/suggestions can be entered at bug#159586. Package will be masked at 2007-05-25, removed at 2005-06-08. Best Regards, Alon Bar-Lev. --

Re: [gentoo-dev] invalid herd in metadata.xml

2007-05-10 Thread Thilo Bangert
Doug Goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Thilo Bangert wrote: All packages with herdmaintainer-needed/herd will be moved to herdno-herd/herd. maintainer-needed is different from no-herd. no-herd is valid when a dev is maintaining a pkg outside of a herd. no-herd is not valid for when the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites sys-apps/855resolution

2007-05-10 Thread Seemant Kulleen
On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 00:33 +0300, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: Hello All, sys-apps/915resolution superseed this package and support 855 configurations. Please upgrade your configuration to sys-apps/915resolution. Comments/suggestions can be entered at bug#159586. Package will be masked at

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] missing herd tag in metadata.xml

2007-05-10 Thread Thilo Bangert
you should look at the archives to see what people decided. from reading the archives and the response so far as well as the current documentation on the subject i conclude that the issue is still not clear and people make up their own stuff as they go along. the following may be a

Re: [gentoo-dev] invalid herd in metadata.xml

2007-05-10 Thread Steve Dibb
Thilo Bangert wrote: Doug Goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Thilo Bangert wrote: All packages with herdmaintainer-needed/herd will be moved to herdno-herd/herd. maintainer-needed is different from no-herd. no-herd is valid when a dev is maintaining a pkg outside of a herd. no-herd is not