Bug 930528

Summary:	x11-plugins/lurch: add support for dev-libs/mxml:4
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Conrad Kostecki <conikost>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Sebastian Pipping <sping>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	sping
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=930527
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	930522

Description Conrad Kostecki gentoo-dev

2024-04-23 21:57:25 UTC

Dear maintainer,
please check, if support for dev-libs/mxml:4 is possible.

The package dev-libs/mxml:4 has been recently added to the tree and is a new major version. The ABI of dev-libs/mxml:4 is not compatible with older dev-libs/mxml-3*

Thank you!

Comment 1 Sebastian Pipping gentoo-dev

2024-04-23 22:38:19 UTC

Hi Conrad, upstream's last commit on lurch master is two years old with no signs of being prioritized again.  All the time I put into https://github.com/gkdr/lurch/pull/177 upstream seems wasted now but was not expected to be a waste back then.  Maybe the best move is to treeclean lurch and its lurch-only dependencies.  If we want to keep it, it probably needs a new downstream maintainer, since it's known bitrot by know.  What do you think?