Signed-off-by: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
---
profiles/package.mask | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

I am sending this as a patch to the list before pushing it in case
anybody has a reasonable objection.

diff --git a/profiles/package.mask b/profiles/package.mask
index e2aa00757e1..73f7a63474c 100644
--- a/profiles/package.mask
+++ b/profiles/package.mask
@@ -33,6 +33,11 @@

#--- END OF EXAMPLES ---

+# Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> (2021-11-24)
+# eudev will be removed on 2022-01-01.
+# Please see the news item published on 2021-08-24 for more information. +sys-fs/eudev
+
# Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org> (2021-11-24)
# No real development since Q1 2020. Last release from 2016.
# Users should switch over to media-sound/strawberry which is an actively
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On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 9:15 AM Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@gentoo.org> wrote:

Hi,

why do you want to drop the package? Since news item, upstream changed.
There will be a new release soon. Was this just on your list to finish
or is there another reason?

I am currently watching upstream and would wait to see if they really do
the release and keep up with the promise. We can still last-rite next quarter, not?

I sincerely doubt eudev will be well maintained by anyone, and will
probably be poorly maintained in Gentoo. It's a maintenance burden we
don't need any longer now that sys-fs/udev can be installed on all of
the platforms we support. I would guess that the majority of active
developers in the base-system project want to see it gone.

Also, I am planning to replace the poorly maintained "hwids" package
with the "hwdata" package maintained by a Red Hat employee. Part of
this plan involved installing the hwdb data that is shipped with
udev/systemd. This plan would be blocked if eudev remained in Gentoo.

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On 25.11.2021 16.15, Thomas Deutschmann wrote:

Hi,

why do you want to drop the package? Since news item, upstream changed.
There will be a new release soon. Was this just on your list to finish
or is there another reason?

I am currently watching upstream and would wait to see if they really do
the release and keep up with the promise. We can still last-rite next quarter, not?

++

I'd also like to see what comes out with new upstream.

Regarding maintainership, AFAIK one person who's involved in the new
upstream is also interested in maintaining this in Gentoo. But this is
just based on my current assumption.

(any non @gentoo.org addresses are still welcome to post in this ML
after subscribing - at least for now)

-- juippis

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