[gentoo-commits] repo/gentoo:master commit in: gnome-extra/gtkhtml/

["Marek Szuba" <marecki@gentoo.org>]

commit:     eda4104d25ede56b6a3924dd6a68f6545440769a
Author:     Marek Szuba <marecki <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
AuthorDate: Thu Jul 30 10:44:17 2020 +0000
Commit:     Marek Szuba <marecki <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
CommitDate: Thu Jul 30 11:18:04 2020 +0000
URL:        https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=eda4104d

gnome-extra/gtkhtml: take over maintenance

gtkhtml is deprecated and our Gnome project would like to get rid of it,
unfortunately without it app-text/xiphos has to be built without editor
support (which is the way e.g. Debian, Ubuntu and Red Hat have gone) and
from what I have seen many people are unhappy about the inability to use
the Studypad or make personal annotations. Xiphos is now the only
remaining consumer of this library so I shall maintain it between now
and until upstream have implemented a working alternative (apparently
they began to discuss it back in April), after which it will be
last-rited.

Discussed with and approved by leio on IRC.

Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/667914
Signed-off-by: Marek Szuba <marecki <AT> gentoo.org>

 gnome-extra/gtkhtml/metadata.xml | 14 +++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gnome-extra/gtkhtml/metadata.xml b/gnome-extra/gtkhtml/metadata.xml
index 39980802b1d..a1f1054e9b4 100644
--- a/gnome-extra/gtkhtml/metadata.xml
+++ b/gnome-extra/gtkhtml/metadata.xml
@@ -1,8 +1,16 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-<maintainer type="project">
-	<email>gnome@gentoo.org</email>
-	<name>Gentoo GNOME Desktop</name>
+<maintainer type="person">
+	<email>marecki@gentoo.org</email>
+	<name>Marek Szuba</name>
 </maintainer>
+<longdescription>
+	This is the old, and by now very much deprecated, Gtk+ HTML engine. It remains
+	available in Gentoo because as of late July 2020 <pkg>app-text/xiphos</pkg>
+	continues to rely on it for editor functionality (the alternative, WebKit-based
+	editor is not compatible with <pkg>net-libs/webkit-gtk</pkg>:4), however
+	it will be removed as soon as Xiphos upstream has implemented an alternative
+	solution.
+</longdescription>
 </pkgmetadata>