[arch-dev-public] Moving dbus-c++ from [extra] to [community]

[Bartłomiej Piotrowski]

On 06/11/2017 01:44 PM, Baptiste Jonglez wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 10:49:29PM +0200, Baptiste Jonglez wrote:
>> dbus-c++ [1] is orphaned, but needs some love to work with GCC 7.
>> Currently, it does not build, and also prevents its reverse dependencies
>> [2,3,4] from building.  Apparently, Fedora has patches to fix this [5].
>>
>> I would be happy to maintain dbus-c++, however it would first need to be
>> moved to [community] (as well as libffado [2]).  Is this ok?
> 
> Is this possible, and if so, who has the right to move the packages from
> [extra] to [community]?
> 
> If somebody else wants to adopt dbus-c++ and fix it, that's be fine too :)
> 
> Thanks,
> Baptiste
> 
> 
>> [1] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/dbus-c++/
>> [2] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/libffado/
>> [3] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/kimtoy/
>> [4] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ring-daemon/
>> [5] http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/dbus-c++.git/log/?h=f26

I'll move it tomorrow (unless someone beats me to it). We should
probably give up on the self-contained [extra] rule as it causes more
problems than it solves.

Bartłomiej