Hi Fabio,
On 31/10/2024 19:38, Fabio Valentini wrote:
Hi all,
TL;DR: I am planning to orphan rust-eza later today. Be warned - it's
a lot of work to keep up with upstream (~1 release per week), keeping
it up-to-date in epel8 is a bit painful (because RHEL 8, duh), and
there are license shenanigans afoot since the v0.20.0 release (package
is currently at v0.19.3).
Given that I don't even use eza myself and just packaged it because it
was on some people's wishlist as the maintained fork of exa, I really
cannot justify the ongoing cost of maintaining this package to myself.
I'm interested in maintaining eza since I use it on multiple systems.
I'm a bit hesitant, though. First, I won't have time to keep up with
every upstream release, but I'll do my best to keep it updated. Also,
because of the large dependency tree, I think joining the rust-sig would
be helpful so I can update dependencies as needed (and of course, I'll
try to help others out where I can). Finally, my experience with Rust is
limited, but I am quite familiar with the packaging process.
Do you think this is a good idea or would it be better to leave it for
someone else?
It might be of note that the project was relicenced from MIT to
EUPL-1.2 without much fanfare as of the 0.20.0 release, in this
mess-of-a-PR:https://github.com/eza-community/eza/pull/1155 - I'm not
a lawyer, but the maintainer unilaterally slapping a different license
onto a project that's been around since 2017 in some form without
asking other contributors (or the original author of exa) doesn't pass
the smell test for me.
Seriously... https://github.com/eza-community/eza/releases/tag/v0.20.0
The PR mentions dual-licensing, but it's now a mess of only MIT, MIT or
EUPL-1.2, and only EUPL-1.2...
Arthur
fas: principis
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