[From nobody Wed Sep 20 09:07:03 2017
From: Adonay Felipe Nogueira <adfeno@hyperbola.info>
To: mailman@gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC Mailman] Suggestion: Allow searching using Namazu
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Thank you for replying, once again, but I would like to make some
additions:

It's strange that Fedora removed the package... because Namazu is still
maintained as of May 2017 ([1]). Frequency of releases isn't the only
factor which determines the health of a project, there's also support
activity, documentation changes and so on. Besides, just because no
release was made, it doesn't mean it's unmaintained, it may just mean
that no release is known to be needed (because no adaptations were
accepted or considered necessary?).

Still, I'm unable to help in the Fedora packaging because it would
require me to use a non-free system distribution ([2]). Perhaps I can help
with packaging for GNU Guix ([3]), and also on using Namazu in Parabola
([4]) and Trisquel ([5]).


Respectfully, Adonay.

[1] <http://www.namazu.org/pipermail/namazu-devel-en/2017-May/000040.html>.

[2] <https://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.html#Fedora>.

[3] Some attempt is being made to package it already, see
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-09/msg01836.html>.

[4] <https://www.parabola.nu/packages/community/armv7h/namazu/>.

[5] <http://packages.trisquel.info/trisquel/pool/main/n/namazu2/>.

mailman@gnucash.org writes:

> Hi,
>
>
> We *WERE* using Namazu years ago, but then it lost support and
> disappeared from Fedora about 5+ years ago.  Get it back into Fedora and
> we'll gladly re-install it on code.
>
> -- mailman
>
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