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Re: remove wm/oroborus + it's utilities?



On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 02:28:56AM +0200, Tobias Nygren wrote:
 > Id like to ask if anyone uses wm/oroborus anymore? The upstream project
 > is long gone and the software was maintained by a Debian developer for
 > a number of years. However, the Debian developer recently retired and
 > Debian has since removed the package and it's associated utilities since
 > nobody stepped up to maintain it.
 > 
 > We never updated to the debian maintained versions and our last update
 > in pkgsrc was more than 15 years ago. Based on that I assume there is
 > little interest in keeping this software around.
 > 
 > Therefore I propose that the following packages should be removed from
 > pkgsrc:
 > 
 >   wm/oroborus
 >   x11/keylaunch
 >   x11/desklaunch
 >   x11/deskmenu

Is there any reason it needs attention, and what attention does it
need? Does it build? Just merging the Debian patchset isn't a big
problem unless it's gone down the memory hole.

-- 
David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost


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