dev-vcs/giggle has a bug that leads to a crash when opening a git project. Upstream is virtually dead, there are at least three bugs on bugzilla.gnome.org adressing the issue: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=NEEDINFO&bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=VERIFIED&product=giggle&query_format=advanced without any reaction for 4 years.
I'm happy for this package to be tree-cleaned. I don't have the time right at the moment (and I'm not sure of the proper procedure, is it mask for 30 days before removal?), however if you'd like me to do it, I'm also happy to be reassigned this and I'll get to it in July. Any guides on how to remove the package the right way would be appreciated though... 5:) Thanks!
It's always been that some dev masked a package as last rited and due to be removed within the next 30 days, unless someone is willing to provide patches. Reason here would be that it is unusable and that upstream is virtually dead, ignoring the problem since 2014!
@ikelos https://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-maintenance/maintenance-tasks/index.html "Removing a package" just did my quizzes yesterday and ran into this question ;)
Awesome, thanks very much! I'll send out the last-rites now... 5:)
For such a p.mask entry, it'd be nice for its users if the p.mask entry listed some alternatives, if any are available. gitg and others.
Sorry, I didn't think of that. Good call, I've updated the entry to mention gitg and git-cola.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=1f8826f159097e4d9ce7a0296924e8c5e7329e4d commit 1f8826f159097e4d9ce7a0296924e8c5e7329e4d Author: Mike Auty <ikelos@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2018-07-22 08:33:14 +0000 Commit: Mike Auty <ikelos@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2018-07-22 08:33:14 +0000 dev-vcs/giggle: remove last rited package Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/658264 dev-vcs/giggle/Manifest | 1 - .../files/giggle-0.6.2-gtksourceview-3.8.0.patch | 24 --------- dev-vcs/giggle/files/giggle-0.7-vte-2.91.patch | 57 ---------------------- dev-vcs/giggle/giggle-0.7-r2.ebuild | 46 ----------------- dev-vcs/giggle/metadata.xml | 11 ----- 5 files changed, 139 deletions(-)
