FS#72296 - [clisp] Upstream of clisp changed.

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by shenlebantongying (shenlebantongying) - Thursday, 30 September 2021, 07:53 GMT
Last edited by Buggy McBugFace (bugbot) - Saturday, 25 November 2023, 20:16 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jürgen Hötzel (juergen)
George Rawlinson (rawlinsong)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:

The master branch of clisp seems no longer host on SF.

Steps to reproduce:

When I try my new mac box, I noticed that the homebrew team use a different upstream for clisp.
https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/clisp.rb#L5

It turns out belong to clisp's authors and there are some activities there.
https://gitlab.com/gnu-clisp/clisp.git

However, this is not urgent before the next clisp release.

Also, the clisp from AUR changed url to there.
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Closed by  Buggy McBugFace (bugbot)
Saturday, 25 November 2023, 20:16 GMT
Reason for closing:  Moved
Additional comments about closing:  https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/p ackaging/packages/clisp/issues/1
Comment by Andrew (lockie) - Thursday, 27 July 2023, 07:32 GMT
I'm affected by this as well.
Comment by shenlebantongying (shenlebantongying) - Thursday, 27 July 2023, 09:17 GMT
CLISP is yet another project in which, after the original developing team left, the only guy left has no idea how to grow a community and grant permission to potential future maintainers. Thus have no future.

My experience is that avoiding defunct projects like this and using alternatives like SBCL makes life easier, happier, and less suffering.

This bug should be just closed. A new release/tag will never happen unless someone invests a lot of effort in forking the said project and making regular releases.
Comment by Andrew (lockie) - Thursday, 27 July 2023, 10:52 GMT
CLISP is well known to be an extremely portable implementation used to bootstrap another implementations, including SBCL as well. Current Arch version does not support important features, like bordeaux-threads mentioned in  FS#79217 . Closing this bug or pointlessly blaming upstream won't make the issue go away, which is: the current Arch version of this package is severely (5 years) outdated.
Comment by shenlebantongying (shenlebantongying) - Thursday, 27 July 2023, 15:51 GMT
All Linux distros stuck with this version from 5 years ago.

https://gitlab.com/gnu-clisp/clisp/-/issues/21#note_521467279

It is the upstream's fault & problem & unhealthy maintainership (dependent on a single person).

Opening a bug here cannot solve it.

Upstream have to tag a new release.

Also, clisp-git exists in AUR.



Comment by Andrew (lockie) - Thursday, 27 July 2023, 17:25 GMT
A plethora of distributions ship proper version of CLISP: https://repology.org/project/clisp/versions . If I still need building to use it under Arch, I'd better stick to Gentoo.

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