This app was last bumped in (25 Feb 2009) and now has a new release listed by the pages run by euscan. Can you ascertain the worthiness of retention of this app in portage and tree clean if appropriate. It builds and installs and still works. It makes a .xml file in $home listing installed packages related to the desktop only. Personally I am not convinced of its usefulness in modern day gentoo.
CCing the maintainer.
In general, if it builds, works and has a new version... it should be fixed if possible. Anyway, if maintainers don't want to take care of it, they can move it to maintainer-needed or, even, if they really want to kill it, feel free to CC us again (ideally with some suggestion about the reasons to state in the hardmask message to prevent users from complaining against us for removing a "working" package ;))
*** Bug 564360 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
this also needs updating to new python eclasses
Created attachment 454846 [details] menumaker-0.99.9.ebuild Version bump ebuild attached converted to EAPI 6 and python-single-r1. Would file a maintainership request if it is going to stay in the tree.
(In reply to Chris Mayo from comment #5) > Created attachment 454846 [details] > menumaker-0.99.9.ebuild > > Version bump ebuild attached converted to EAPI 6 and python-single-r1. > > Would file a maintainership request if it is going to stay in the tree. File it please and make that bug block this one Thanks
This is merged in https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=dd3ffccf496c1f6de8457cf710de037e87b3603b. @pacho, can you remove the mask please?
commit e0ae90c22c4bbcf86f7af5942c0542afccab1966 Author: Göktürk Yüksek <gokturk@gentoo.org> Date: Mon Dec 5 21:26:13 2016 -0500 profiles: unmask a package pending removal (x11-misc/menumaker) #554458 I unmasked it but I don't know if there's anything to be done on the treecleaner's side.
All nice, thanks!
Some time ago I contacted the current maintainer and proposed that I repair and enhance menumaker. I've since then submitted less than I had hopped to but, if you should pull then svn repo you'll see that it works with python 3.4 happily. 2.7 needs repair (I broke it), and I need to do more testing to ensure the current desktops work ie. no syntax changes. Also, I've been hopping to add support for all the WMs that I known of, but have not gotten to it yet.
(In reply to deference from comment #10) > Some time ago I contacted the current maintainer and proposed that I repair > and enhance menumaker. > I've since then submitted less than I had hopped to but, if you should pull > then svn repo you'll see that it works with python 3.4 happily. > 2.7 needs repair (I broke it), and I need to do more testing to ensure the > current desktops work ie. no syntax changes. > Also, I've been hopping to add support for all the WMs that I known of, but > have not gotten to it yet. I've looked here: https://sourceforge.net/p/menumaker/code/commit_browser and I couldn't work out which commits you were referring to. Please test the menumaker-0.99.9.ebuild and raise new Gentoo bugs for any issues that are still there. Do reference any upstream bugs or commits. As per convention fixes should have upstream commits but it would still be useful to have the Gentoo bugs to know whether menumaker-0.99.9 should be stabilised or not.
