Re: [gentoo-dev] A procedure to move a package from guru to the main tree?

[Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2025 at 8:46 AM Andrey Grozin <grozin@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> Hi *,
>
> I've found an interesting package, app-text/OCRmyPDF, in guru. I've copied
> it to my local overlay, renamed to ocrmypdf, bumped the version 16.10.2 ->
> 16.10.4, removed the patches which were already applied upstream. I'd like
> to add it to the main tree, adding myself as a maintainer (I think I
> should also keep the guru maintainer, right?).

I would ask the GURU maintainer if they wish to co-maintain it by
proxy in ::gentoo.

> What's the correct procedure for this? Do I simply commit app-text/ocrmypdf to the tree? Who will remove it from guru?

I believe all Gentoo devs have write access to the GURU repo, so you
could remove it yourself if you want. Otherwise, I suppose that would
fall to the GURU maintainer and/or the members of the GURU project.

The package rename makes things a little dirty. I'm not sure we really
want to introduce pkgmove entries in ::gentoo for ebuilds that
currently only exist in overlays. Maybe add a soft-blocker on the
original package name to your new ebuild.