Bug 883379 – media-gfx/ueberzug: dead project?

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Oskari Pirhonen 2022-11-28 04:30:51 UTC]

This project seems to have been taken down by the developer as some kind of rage quit (not familiar with the history behind it). They also say in the github repo:

> I recommend you to stop using this project.

The pypi page also 404's: https://pypi.org/project/ueberzug/

[Comment 1 Larry the Git Cow 2022-11-28 04:55:22 UTC]

The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=b90312f10c47ca0a888f7978d0b4682ca7b87db5

commit b90312f10c47ca0a888f7978d0b4682ca7b87db5
Author:     Ionen Wolkens <[e-mail]>
AuthorDate: 2022-11-28 04:45:55 +0000
Commit:     Ionen Wolkens <[e-mail]>
CommitDate: 2022-11-28 04:55:11 +0000

    media-gfx/ueberzug: remove upstream metadata
    
    Seems project was abandoned by upstream.
    
    Still useful for ytfzf and there's no notable issues with it,
    so there's no plans to remove it for the time being.
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/883379
    Signed-off-by: Ionen Wolkens <[e-mail]>

 media-gfx/ueberzug/metadata.xml              | 4 ----
 media-gfx/ueberzug/ueberzug-18.1.9-r1.ebuild | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

[Comment 2 Larry the Git Cow 2023-04-20 20:29:12 UTC]

The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=100d2a77480942b63962e954c568bf27e07a58bb

commit 100d2a77480942b63962e954c568bf27e07a58bb
Author:     Ionen Wolkens <[e-mail]>
AuthorDate: 2023-04-16 02:52:52 +0000
Commit:     Ionen Wolkens <[e-mail]>
CommitDate: 2023-04-20 20:25:02 +0000

    media-gfx/ueberzug: add github new upstream metadata
    
    Looks like a hopefully serious fork, been around for ~3 months,
    got a few fixes, a new release, and upstream responds to issues.
    
    Doesn't seem to be on pypi yet, so not re-adding that.
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/883379
    Signed-off-by: Ionen Wolkens <[e-mail]>

 media-gfx/ueberzug/metadata.xml | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)