[aur-general] [community] Up for adoption: cairo-compmgr, gadmin-samba

Cédric Girard girard.cedric at gmail.com
Wed Feb 22 15:36:06 EST 2012


On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Florian Pritz wrote:

>
> On 18.02.2012 00:59, Cédric Girard wrote:
> > Le 17 févr. 2012 20:51, "Florian Pritz" a écrit :
> >
> >>
> >> - cairo-compmgr: upstream is pretty dead (hardly any commits in git nor
> >> recent releases) and it doesn't build right now because -ldl is missing
> >> from $(LIBS).
> >>
> >
> > If dropped to AUR, I may adopt it. I maintain the git version and it is
> > quite straightforward to maintain. The missing libdl linking can be fixed
> > easily as well.
> >
>
> If cairo-compmgr ever releases another working version, please use that
> instead of pulling git checkouts (I just did that because it stopped
> building and upstream applied a lot of patches to fix that)
>
>
Yes, of course.
The recent license switch from GPL to LGPL of this software is not a very
good sign for the future of it. I have tried to ping the devs to know more.

-- 
Cédric Girard


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