FS#11619 - bitlbee in [extra] orphaned and way out of date

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by quantax (quantax) - Sunday, 28 September 2008, 22:12 GMT
Last edited by Jeff Mickey (codemac) - Wednesday, 10 December 2008, 03:15 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Aaron Griffin (phrakture)
Jeff Mickey (codemac)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

The BitlBee package is way outdated. The version in the repositories is 1.0.4 while the upstream version is 1.2.3! It is also orphaned. Moreover Simo Leone's drop root patch doesn't apply anymore. Flagging the package out of date and contacting the previous maintainer did not change anything.

You can find an updated version in the attachment. There are a few changes to the previous package:
First of all the pkg-config files are included to facilitate the building of BitlBee plugins like Miklos Vajna's bitblee-skype.
Second, BitlBee is launched with the right privileged by its init script instead of relying on the drop root patch.
Also the PKGBUILD as been modernized according to the current templates.

Please someone adopt the package in [extra] and update it or push it to unsupported for someone else to maintain.
   bitlbee.tar.gz (10 KiB)
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Closed by  Jeff Mickey (codemac)
Wednesday, 10 December 2008, 03:15 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  BAM! Being less fail is a long process.
Comment by Aaron Bull Schaefer (elasticdog) - Tuesday, 21 October 2008, 02:18 GMT
I too would like to see this updated and taken care of...Bitlbee has been out of date for an extremely long time, is currently orphaned, and is not working with all IM protocols currently due to the older version. If no devs would like to maintain it, I could support it in community.
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Tuesday, 21 October 2008, 12:40 GMT
please add it there: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Package_Cleanup
Comment by quantax (quantax) - Tuesday, 21 October 2008, 12:56 GMT
OK, added to http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Package_Cleanup#The_List
Please vote.
Comment by quantax (quantax) - Sunday, 07 December 2008, 01:57 GMT
Jeff Mickey has adopted the package: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2008-November/002674.html
But still no update so far.
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Tuesday, 09 December 2008, 23:01 GMT
Ping? Jeff?

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