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Bug 911617 - net-nntp/nzbget: switch to maintained fork
Summary: net-nntp/nzbget: switch to maintained fork
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Joe Kappus
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Reported: 2023-08-02 16:12 UTC by Sam James
Modified: 2023-11-05 21:08 UTC (History)
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Description Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2023-08-02 16:12:29 UTC
https://github.com/nzbget/nzbget is archived, but I came across an active fork at https://github.com/nzbget-ng/nzbget.

Could the ebuild be changed over to this? Cheers.
Comment 1 Joe Kappus 2023-09-20 18:26:49 UTC
Since this has been open for some time I'll work on this and offer to proxy maintain it. I am familiar with the software and a heavy usenet user (used to use this before going to sabnzbd). Sven, just so I don't step on your toes if you still want it just reassign to yourself.
Comment 2 Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2023-09-20 18:47:32 UTC
Putting swegener into CC.
Comment 3 Louis Sautier (sbraz) gentoo-dev 2023-09-23 23:49:00 UTC
(In reply to Joe Kappus from comment #1)
> Since this has been open for some time I'll work on this and offer to proxy
> maintain it. I am familiar with the software and a heavy usenet user (used
> to use this before going to sabnzbd). Sven, just so I don't step on your
> toes if you still want it just reassign to yourself.

Hi, Sven hasn't touched the ebuild since 2016. I have been maintaining it since then.
I just didn't feel like changing upstreams before being sure that the new one was trustworthy. Have you tried it yet? I guess we could release upstream's v21.4-rc2 as 21.4_pre2. It's too bad the new maintainer didn't update the changelog though.
I don't mind co-maintainers, feel free to make a PR and add yourself.
Comment 4 Louis Sautier (sbraz) gentoo-dev 2023-10-30 22:47:58 UTC
It came to my attention that there is another fork: https://github.com/nzbgetcom/nzbget
What do you guys think?
Comment 5 Joe Kappus 2023-11-05 21:08:59 UTC
That fork might actually be better to target, here's their discussion/philosophy on it: https://github.com/nzbgetcom/nzbget/discussions/37 and reddit release announcement: https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/comments/17k0tda/new_nzbget_project/

nzbget's had a longstanding issue where it can't de-obfuscate nzb releases posted by a certain group. nzbget-ng can but it also breaks support for BSD OS's. This new fork seems to have taken a more planned/conservative approach to support new hardware/OS and leaves handling the de-obfuscation task to an external script. 

Yeah, we should probably use this one instead.