Finding a new home for a bunch of my packages
Hi all, I have been thinking about refocusing my contributions on Arch. As Andreas rightfully asked about openssl it's probably best to go ahead. I have been maintaining a couple of packages simply because they where orphaned a long time ago. They are all maintained but maybe someone could be found who is more knowledgeable or is even an active user of these packages. Here is a list of all the packages I care or know less about; just answer to this list if you like to maintain any of these. * archiso, archlinux-keyring, devtools: These already have other people working on it, so I probably can safely remove myself as maintainer. * aspell-de * imap: This is a dead package and should not be used by anybody. I just maintain it as dependency of php/c-client. If nobody is interested I might look into removing it * grml-zsh-config, hefur, lighttpd, lynx: I am no longer using these packages * logrotate * openssl, openssl-1.0, openssl-1.1: An update to Openssl 3.0 is prepared and packaged. Though I lack the knowledge to fix the packages depending on it and I do not feel confident to apply random patches. This is also better handled by someone who knows more about C; especially about handling different library versions and symbols. * run-parts * xz * zlib: Someone with a deeper knowledge might be advisable as this needs custom patches due to difficult upstream. Someone might also consider switching to a more maintained zlib-ng. * zsh I am not orphaning any of these if nobody could be found; ideally there is someone with a sense of passion for some of these more important packages. Greetings, Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, https://pierre-schmitz.com
On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 08:14:47PM +0200, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
Hi all,
I have been thinking about refocusing my contributions on Arch. As Andreas rightfully asked about openssl it's probably best to go ahead. I have been maintaining a couple of packages simply because they where orphaned a long time ago. They are all maintained but maybe someone could be found who is more knowledgeable or is even an active user of these packages.
Here is a list of all the packages I care or know less about; just answer to this list if you like to maintain any of these.
* archiso, archlinux-keyring, devtools: These already have other people working on it, so I probably can safely remove myself as maintainer. * aspell-de * imap: This is a dead package and should not be used by anybody. I just maintain it as dependency of php/c-client. If nobody is interested I might look into removing it * grml-zsh-config, hefur, lighttpd, lynx: I am no longer using these packages * logrotate * openssl, openssl-1.0, openssl-1.1: An update to Openssl 3.0 is prepared and packaged. Though I lack the knowledge to fix the packages depending on it and I do not feel confident to apply random patches. This is also better handled by someone who knows more about C; especially about handling different library versions and symbols. * run-parts * xz * zlib: Someone with a deeper knowledge might be advisable as this needs custom patches due to difficult upstream. Someone might also consider switching to a more maintained zlib-ng. * zsh
I am not orphaning any of these if nobody could be found; ideally there is someone with a sense of passion for some of these more important packages.
Greetings,
Pierre
Thank you for acting on the openssl-3.0 issue. Why don't we push it to [staging] and let the maintainer of the affected packages deal with patching? I don't think you have to do this on your own :) I've adopted zsh and grml-zsh-config. Best regards, Frederik
archlinux-keyring
Already taking care of this, with a lot of help from others. Also adopting: grml-zsh-config xz zsh (... unless Frederik disagrees in zsh packages...) -- main(a){char*c=/* Schoene Gruesse */"B?IJj;MEH" "CX:;",b;for(a/* Best regards my address: */=0;b=c[a++];) putchar(b-1/(/* Chris cc -ox -xc - && ./x */b/42*2-3)*42);}
Thanks a lot for the feedback so far. If you are slightly interested in a package but do not want to maintain it all on your own, let us know regardless. I think it will be best if some of these will e maintained by more than one packager. As for pushing openssl into [staging]: If people agree I can do so. But if we do not follow up with an effort to push all depending rebuilds, we will end up with a lot of broken packages and/or conflicts with other rebuilds. Greetings, Pierre On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 8:14 PM Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de> wrote:
Hi all,
I have been thinking about refocusing my contributions on Arch. As Andreas rightfully asked about openssl it's probably best to go ahead. I have been maintaining a couple of packages simply because they where orphaned a long time ago. They are all maintained but maybe someone could be found who is more knowledgeable or is even an active user of these packages.
Here is a list of all the packages I care or know less about; just answer to this list if you like to maintain any of these.
* archiso, archlinux-keyring, devtools: These already have other people working on it, so I probably can safely remove myself as maintainer. * aspell-de * imap: This is a dead package and should not be used by anybody. I just maintain it as dependency of php/c-client. If nobody is interested I might look into removing it * grml-zsh-config, hefur, lighttpd, lynx: I am no longer using these packages * logrotate * openssl, openssl-1.0, openssl-1.1: An update to Openssl 3.0 is prepared and packaged. Though I lack the knowledge to fix the packages depending on it and I do not feel confident to apply random patches. This is also better handled by someone who knows more about C; especially about handling different library versions and symbols. * run-parts * xz * zlib: Someone with a deeper knowledge might be advisable as this needs custom patches due to difficult upstream. Someone might also consider switching to a more maintained zlib-ng. * zsh
I am not orphaning any of these if nobody could be found; ideally there is someone with a sense of passion for some of these more important packages.
Greetings,
Pierre
-- Pierre Schmitz, https://pierre-schmitz.com
-- Pierre Schmitz, https://pierre-schmitz.com
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Christian Hesse
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Frederik Schwan
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Pierre Schmitz