On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 22:50:13 +0100 Sam James <s...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> orbea <or...@riseup.net> writes: > > > On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 22:21:21 +0100 > > Sam James <s...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > >> 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. > >> > >> Also note that the PR is a hack rather than a full implementation > >> of the functionality anyway, which may lead to runtime > >> misbehaviour. > > > > According to upstream it implement's systemd's fallback path as > > explained in this comment. > > > > https://github.com/eudev-project/eudev/issues/249#issuecomment-1675520914 > > > > That same comment goes on to say it's the "quick-n-dirty" fix and may > break applications. Slibtool also has no-op compatibility fixes that potentially could cause issues too, I don't see this being a problem there. If eudev was entirely broken or not being used I could understand why to remove it, but rather this is removing software that mostly works and is being used. With all due honesty is very disappointing to see this, I started to use Gentoo because it offered choices. > > > > > However its fully possible to use Gentoo without requiring > > sticky-tags so I don't really see the urgency that requires > > removing software that has users that find it works for them. We > > even have the most recent upstream release which came out only a > > few months ago. > >> > >> > > >> >> > >> >> > > >> >> > Dale > >> >> > > >> >> > :-) :-) > >> >> > >> >> > >> > >> > >
