Bug 722710 – Last rite suggestion: mail-filter/libsieve

• Status: UNCONFIRMED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Ralph Seichter 2020-05-12 14:32:59 UTC]

Looking at orphaned packages today, I came across mail-filter/libsieve. I have considered stepping in as maintainer, but after some research I am wondering if it would be best to last-rite the package instead. Reasons:

* Gentoo's version 2.2.7 is outdated.

* The latest upstream[1] commit was made more than 8 years ago.

* There's an open QA notice[2] for the Gentoo package.

* mail-filter/libsieve has no reverse dependencies in the Gentoo tree.

[1] https://github.com/sodabrew/libsieve
[2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/682602

[Comment 1 Brian Evans (RETIRED) 2020-05-12 14:46:16 UTC]

(In reply to Ralph Seichter from comment #0)
> Looking at orphaned packages today, I came across mail-filter/libsieve. I
> have considered stepping in as maintainer, but after some research I am
> wondering if it would be best to last-rite the package instead. Reasons:
> * mail-filter/libsieve has no reverse dependencies in the Gentoo tree.

This one is not correct.  net-mail/dbmail optionally depends on mail-filter/libsieve.

[Comment 2 Ralph Seichter 2020-05-12 14:50:19 UTC]

(In reply to Brian Evans from comment #1)

> net-mail/dbmail optionally depends on mail-filter/libsieve.
Interesting. I used "equery d mail-filter/libsieve" and got no match. How did you find the reverse dependency?

[Comment 3 Brian Evans (RETIRED) 2020-05-12 14:52:16 UTC]

(In reply to Ralph Seichter from comment #2)
> (In reply to Brian Evans from comment #1)
> 
> > net-mail/dbmail optionally depends on mail-filter/libsieve.
> Interesting. I used "equery d mail-filter/libsieve" and got no match. How
> did you find the reverse dependency?

Don't rely on equery for this.  Gentoo keeps records of this to quickly look:  https://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/genrdeps/rindex/mail-filter/libsieve

[Comment 4 Ralph Seichter 2020-05-12 14:56:53 UTC]

Thanks, Brian. I will remember that for future checks. Would it be OK to assign this issue to lordvan@g.o as the maintainer of dbmail, to ask for his opinion? Perhaps he would consider becoming the libsieve maintainer, what with dbmail apparently being the only remaining "consumer"?

[Comment 5 Brian Evans (RETIRED) 2020-05-12 14:58:21 UTC]

(In reply to Ralph Seichter from comment #4)
> Thanks, Brian. I will remember that for future checks. Would it be OK to
> assign this issue to lordvan@g.o as the maintainer of dbmail, to ask for his
> opinion? Perhaps he would consider becoming the libsieve maintainer, what
> with dbmail apparently being the only remaining "consumer"?

CC'd as requested, but I make no promises

[Comment 6 David Seifert 2020-11-15 23:24:48 UTC]

All bugs fixed now