On 14/12/16 15:47, Michał Górny wrote: > On Wed, 14 Dec 2016 08:30:00 +0000 > "M. J. Everitt" <m.j.ever...@iee.org> wrote: > >> On 14/12/16 08:26, Christopher Head wrote: >>> On Sun, 11 Dec 2016 16:59:50 +0100 >>> Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>> >>>> Hello, everyone. >>>> >>>> The Ada project seriously needs help. For some time already, it has no >>>> active developers (George is retiring), and a lot of bugs needing >>>> attention. >>>> >>>> The packages maintained by aga@g.o are: >>>> >>>> app-eselect/eselect-gnat >>>> dev-ada/asis-gcc >>>> dev-ada/charles >>>> dev-lang/gnat-gcc >>>> virtual/ada >>>> virtual/gnat >>>> >>>> Since the Ada subsystem in Gentoo is practically unmaintained now >>>> and has only those two packages, the alternative is to lastrite it >>>> all. >>>> >>>> Is anyone interested in Ada? Any comments? >>>> >>> I notice sci-electronics/ghdl is not in this list. Is it considered >>> part of this? It depends on gnat-gcc. I guess it would also be lost if >>> the above were given last rites? >> Following this theme, what does the dependency list look like Michał ? > Well, to be honest I didn't really think it would come to that. > > But if you insist, there are two dependencies: > > net-mail/topal > sci-electronics/ghdl > > The first one is dead and in process of being removed (waiting on > stablereq of newer alpine). With it gone, we'd also get rid of some > ugly hacks to net-libs/c-client (and with Alpine gone, we'd even get > rid of more hacks!) > > So the only real consumer is GHDL -- yet another case when someone > thought it'd be fun to use a fringe language to implement something > useful... However, it seems to be undermaintained in Gentoo as well, > not bumped for a long time. > Thanks for that, and I see you filed a PR on GH to get the CI tests done.
I guess we could bike-shed for a few weeks on here, and put to council for a final vote in, say, February?! Just my 3c ofc :]
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