Must eudev be 100% compatible with all the garbage that gets shoved into udev to stay in ::gentoo? I don't see mdev being held to that standard.
On 9/12/23, Alexey Sokolov <alexey+gen...@asokolov.org> wrote: > 11.09.2023 22:35, Sam James пишет: >> >> Alexey Sokolov <alexey+gen...@asokolov.org> writes: >> >>> 11.09.2023 22:21, Sam James пишет: >>>> orbea <or...@riseup.net> writes: >>>> >>>>> On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 21:31:30 +0100 >>>>> Sam James <s...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> writes: >>>>>> >>>>>>> orbea wrote: >>>>>>>> On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 17:29:47 +0200 >>>>>>>> "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfri...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Am Montag, 11. September 2023, 17:22:43 CEST schrieb orbea: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Upstream is maintained still. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> https://github.com/eudev-project/eudev >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> No, it's not. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Based on what? It has several commits this year and is currently >>>>>>>> working on both of my systems. Is there something specific showing >>>>>>>> why its not maintained? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> . >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On the link above it says this: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On 2021-08-20 Gentoo decided to abandon eudev and a new project was >>>>>>> established on 2021-09-14 by Alpine, Devuan and Gentoo contributors >>>>>>> (alphabetical order). >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> It seems to have a upstream that is active but no one is >>>>>>> maintaining it on Gentoo. Basically, it needs a Gentoo maintainer >>>>>>> now. It would seem given the time span that no one wants to take >>>>>>> it. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Like others, I use it but didn't know it wasn't maintained anymore. >>>>>>> I hope someone will step up but if not, looks like we have to use >>>>>>> udev. >>>>>> >>>>>> No, see the linked bugs. Someone has to actually make it compatible >>>>>> with the tags API which software is starting to use. >>>>> >>>>> I think its only a matter of time. >>>>> >>>>> https://github.com/eudev-project/eudev/pull/253 >>>>> >>>>> I'll apply the patch and test the builds if it helps, but I don't know >>>>> about testing the runtime functionality of libgudev. >>>> Someone has to then bother reviewing it, merging it, releasing it, >>>> and >>>> ideally updating eudev for other stuff like this. >>> >>> Of course. Just like any other PR to any other project :) What's your >>> point? >> >> I don't know what you mean. My point is none of that has been happening. >> > > I see, ok. I would agree with you, however, the author of that PR is a > member of eudev org, so I wouldn't say it's dead just yet. > >>> >>>> Also note that the PR is a hack rather than a full implementation >>>> of the functionality anyway, which may lead to runtime misbehaviour. >>> >>> And that's fine for programs which don't make use of the new API. >>> >> >> and? Someone has to actually check that? >> >> >> > > -- > Best regards, > Alexey "DarthGandalf" Sokolov > > >
