Found using https://github.com/serokell/xrefcheck, which unfortunately
can't trivially be enforced in CI because we also have the manual markdown
files that need post-processing to be valid
This upgrade fixes the issue with drawTropicalCurve docbuilding
on Darwin (although said doctest is pretty useless now that Apple has
removed postscript from macOS).
Removed enableGfanlib; you can still overrideAttrs
Added mpfr to be more consistent with upstream packaging
recommendations
While preparing this change, I read the git blame on all of the files I
touched. I saw a working lifetime of building this system which we use
every day and love dearly and keep maintained ourselves. I saw commits
from a 14 year range between 2003 to 2017!! I could not be more thankful
for Eelco's work on building large parts of the foundation of nixpkgs
that all of us rely on now.
However, the end date of that range of the files I looked at the blame
on was 2017. I did not see surviving code from any newer date than that.
Looking at the Git logs, Eelco has been working on other things, and
that's totally fine.
However, it means that our maintenance metadata is out of date on a lot
of packages, and *that*'s the reason I am submitting this change. There
are a lot of packages that don't have anyone with their name on them to
be pinged if they need attention, even if they have had recent activity
(although it is never clear if recent activity was just someone fixing
it because ZHF or because the package actually matters to them).
There are a lot of packages with storied history that maybe don't need
to be in the set anymore at all since they have not been touched in
years; or maybe they are simply finished.
Empty maintainer lists should be a sign that we need to figure out who
maintains it or potentially remove it if it has rotted, and allowing the
maintainer list to be empty if it is already not maintained is part of a
healthy repository ecology.
Either way, I would like to have the maintenance metadata not mislead
anyone into sending Eelco emails about packages he doesn't, in practice,
work on anymore. I have not removed his name from everything; there are
some things that he is the upstream for or has worked on more recently,
for instance, like Nix, which I have left alone.
These versions have been obsolete for 5 to 10 years, and have been
broken since 34cd4905d1 unless the user
specifies manual overrides. Given that nobody seems to have reported
an issue with them, I conclude that demand for them is minimal and
that there’s no need for them to block the removal of OpenCV 2.
Since theey is not active from at least six years.
All the packages on this commit became orphans.
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There are files not covered by this commit, because they will be adopted
soon. Namely:
- pkgs/by-name/zs/zsync/package.nix
- pkgs/games/bsdgames/default.nix
- pkgs/misc/ghostscript/default.nix
- pkgs/os-specific/linux/kernel/perf/default.nix
- pkgs/tools/system/logrotate/default.nix
