[arch-dev-public] Monotone update

Eric Bélanger snowmaniscool at gmail.com
Wed Apr 8 11:48:08 EDT 2009


On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Douglas Soares de Andrade
<dsandrade at gmail.com> wrote:
> Em Quarta-feira 08 Abril 2009, às 10:41:40, Eric Bélanger escreveu:
>> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 7:35 AM, Douglas Soares de Andrade
>>
>> <dsandrade at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I was going to update monotone and it is now needing another lib called
>> > botan:
>> >
>> > http://botan.randombit.net/news/
>> >
>> > I have both compiled here, so, are we going to add botan to extra or
>> > remove monotone and send it to unsupported ?
>> >
>> > Thanks
>>
>> Do you still want to maintain it? If not, we should see if soneone
>> else is interested before moving it to unsupported.
>
> Hi Eric,
>
> Yes, i can maintain it, i just asked because it will need to add another lib
> to extra so i was in doubt what is the best thing to do...
>
> Seems monotone does not have as much users as git and others, btw, i have both
> compiled here, can i add botan to extra and send the updated version of
> monotone ?
>
> Thanks
>

Sure, just go ahead. No one would object to adding new depends to
extra (I think). Don't forget to adopt botan afterward.

If, in the future, no-one wants to maintain them anymore, we can just
move them both to unsupported.

Eric


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