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

Bartłomiej Piotrowski bpiotrowski at archlinux.org
Mon Jun 12 19:08:02 UTC 2017


On 06/11/2017 02:12 PM, Bartłomiej Piotrowski wrote:
> 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
> 

Done. Have fun fixing it.


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