Mesa is a package like any other. There's no reason for it to be a
special case with its platforms listed in lib, because if other
packages want to refer to mesa's platforms, they can access the
platforms from the package meta like they would for any other package.
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However, it means that our maintenance metadata is out of date on a lot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.
We've used a wayland-scanner = wayland.bin alias for ages, to make
packages clearer and allow them to be independently overridden.
Going the whole way into splitting them into separate packages is
useful because it means we can have different meta.platforms
attributes for libwayland and wayland-scanner.
There is no duplication in outputs between the two packages — they
don't install any files in common.
Since we're no longer pulling just one output into nativeBuildInputs
of packages using wayland-scanner, we can use upstream's
wayland-scanner.pc, which gets installed into the dev output, rather
than providing our own.
Otherwise, wayland-scanner would be picked up from the wayland in
buildInputs, which isn't cross-friendly and will stop working when we
split wayland-scanner into a separate package.
Otherwise, wayland-scanner would be picked up from the wayland in
buildInputs, which isn't cross-friendly and will stop working when we
split wayland-scanner into a separate package.
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
Updated the vendored patch to disable building of Linux specific demos
on Darwin to be able to use fetchpatch for upstream-accepted patches and
hopefully to make the next version bump not require figuring out what to
do with the patch.
