Hi. The latest ebuild of app-emacs/mew, 6.8, was from 2019. [1] I wonder if you could bump it. The upstream has still been maintaining it at github, if minimally - the last commit was done this month, in Feb 2023. However, no versioned release has been done since 6.8, [2] so all we can do is to provide snapshots. Or perhaps you can simply last-rite it. I don't think many users are still using Mew. The ver 6.8 doesn't work if USE=jit is set for emacs, but this is fixed in the upstream. [3] This already indicates a bump is necessary, and Mew's popularity is low. According to Mew's website, [4] its github repository is https://github.com/kazu-yamamoto/Mew/ . Thank you very much, Gentoo emacs team. Best regards. [1] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/log/app-emacs/mew [2] https://github.com/kazu-yamamoto/Mew/tags [3] The fix is probably done by this commit: https://github.com/kazu-yamamoto/Mew/commit/3409333b898ab90582de42cd509f0aed00b63a53 [4] http://www.mew.org/en/git/
Could you ask upstream to tag a new release?
Created attachment 850160 [details] mew-6.8_p20230203.ebuild If you mean a versioned release, sorry, I don't feel like it. It'd be too demandig for the upstream, IMHO. Their tradition is to prepare a detailed change list for each release. [1][2] FYI I instead submit my ebuild, which simply uses a commit id. That's what I mean by "or last rite, please." It's quite probable that most Gentoo users won't be affected. Danke schön (again!) Ulrich for your long time effort in Gentoo. [1] For example see this v6.8 chagelog: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kazu-yamamoto/Mew/master/00changes.6.8 [2] TL;DR: Mew is "a member of the good-ol-still-working-grandpa's-software club". The fact that the developer has not yet abandoned it is enough to make me feel grateful. A sensible release would be an excess.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=70768830dc175aae026be85d0168d747c49b5233 commit 70768830dc175aae026be85d0168d747c49b5233 Author: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2023-02-08 18:32:59 +0000 Commit: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2023-02-08 18:35:25 +0000 app-emacs/mew: add 6.8_p20230203 Snapshot from Git because last release was in 2018. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/893174 Reported-by: Teika kazura <teika@gmx.com> Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> app-emacs/mew/Manifest | 1 + app-emacs/mew/metadata.xml | 3 +++ app-emacs/mew/mew-6.8_p20230203.ebuild | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 51 insertions(+)
