[Rarian] rarian bugfixes?

[Troy Curtis Jr]

I've created an issue on the freedeskop.org Gitlab to see about getting a
repo created:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freedesktop/freedesktop/-/issues/475

All are welcome to join!


On Sat, Nov 19, 2022 at 6:32 PM Troy Curtis Jr <troy at troycurtisjr.com>
wrote:

> Howdy all!
>
> Each of you appear to have some relationship to rarian, whether mentioned
> in the source code or involved with packaging it for various distributions.
> I gather that rarian is dormant, potentially abandoned, but I was curious
> if there is still some place where development might still happen? If there
> isn't currently such a place, I assumed this crew might be the set of
> people most interested, even if only a little, in seeing a place for
> maintenance created.
>
> So my questions are:
> 1. Does anyone know of any place where maintenance might happen?
> 2. If not, is there any interest in setting up such a place?
>
> I see that Debian [1] and OpenSuse [2] have already dropped the package,
> but it is still around in a few other distributions, such as Slackware,
> Gentoo, and Fedora. I investigated a few segfaults experienced by Fedora
> users [3] and it looks like the fix is pretty easy. There just needs to be
> an upstream to incorporate it! I can, of course, patch it in the Fedora
> package, but ideally it should be available for wider distribution.
>
> If no one knows of any location to take in these patches, then I will try
> to engage with the Freedesktop team to see if a repo on their Gitlab
> instance can be created for use. Anyone that is interested in participating
> there is certainly welcome.
>
> Thanks,
> Troy
>
> 1: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/rarian
> 2: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1141381
> 3: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2123124
>
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