[Slackbuilds-users] orphaned buildscripts

[Christoph Willing]

On 16/5/23 23:34, Erich Ritz wrote:
> ------- Original Message -------
> On Tuesday, May 16th, 2023 at 7:38 AM, Christoph Willing <chris.willing at linux.com> wrote:
> 
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>> On 13/5/23 11:02, KB_SBo wrote:
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>>> All:
>>>
>>> While assisting a friend in getting some software compiled, he emailed
>>> the currently listed SBo maintainer:
>>>
>>>> Benjamin Trigona-Harany, the former qgis maintainer, wrote that he dropped
>>>> all his SBo packages two years ago.
>>>
>>> Therefore it looks like these are all up for grabs:
>>>
>>> -----------------------------
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>>> network/tornado
>>
>>
>> I'm not using tornado at the moment but some time ago I used it
>> intensively on a large project and so, for sentimental reasons, I
>> wouldn't like it to disappear from SBo.
>>
>> The existing version on SBo dates back to 2018 and uses python2. The
>> latest available version properly uses python3 and this is the version I
>> would want to maintain.
>>
>> However the existing (python2) version is depended on by some other
>> SlackBuilds (libraries/toro, system/salt, python/tornado_systemd,
>> system/graphterm, libraries/python2-matplotlib, system/butterfly), so I
>> guess the python2 version of tornado would need to stay around for their
>> benefit.
>>
>> I'd like to propose that I create and maintain a new SlackBuild for
>> python3-tornado while the existing tornado could be renamed as
>> python2-tornado or even remain as is (assuming someone else steps in to
>> take it over).
> 
> python3-tornado already exists on SBo.  Looks like tornado is the python2-only version.
> 

Thanks Erich, I should have checked.

chris