On 2023-10-26 02:29, Jonas Stein wrote:
this is a very powerful package with many users.
...but sadly, very few maintainers. It was m-n when I took it over 3 years ago, as apparently no-one found it worth looking after following the disbanding of the Graphics project - and that was back when upstream still used CMake! Telling the truth I wasn't exactly interested either, it's just that it happened to be an optional dependency of media-gfx/darktable.
Thank you for maintaining it till now.
You're very welcome!
Could you address the exact problems to upstream, so they are aware and can improve it? I think not only Gentoo, but also other distributions suffer if it does not build smooth.
I used to do that. It seemed to have little to no effect so in the end I just gave up.
Looks to me as if the package is not broken now, but there is a lack of manpower to update it. 30 days is the minimum for a removal.
There are two outstanding QA issues (ignored LDFLAGS and pre-stripped binaries) in 3.3.1 pertaining to USE=gimp and USE=qt5. Prior to adding that version I tried to leverage qmake-utils.eclass in the Qt parts of the package, which hopefully would have got rid of these issues - but resulted in a wall of actual errors. This has been the last straw as far as me maintaining G'MIC is concerned.
I suggest to keep it for a few more months.
Fine by me if someone actually maintains it. I've just dropped media-gfx/gmic back to m-n to make it clear that I do not intend to block it from being reactivated.
-- Marecki
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