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However, it means that our maintenance metadata is out of date on a lot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.
sysstat compresses manual pages using the `ZIP` environment variable
unless `COMPRESS_MANPG` is set.
`ZIP` seems to default to xz(1) and is for more than just compressing
manuals.
At least with `documentation.man.mandoc.enable = true;` this renders
them unreadable:
```
$ man -w mpstat
man: outdated mandoc.db lacks mpstat(1) entry, run makewhatis /nix/store/lk0r6ibvkrvaq96gp8h4rqgrd2q0c8q5-system-path/share/man
/nix/store/lk0r6ibvkrvaq96gp8h4rqgrd2q0c8q5-system-path/share/man/man1/mpstat.1.xz
```
(followed by `PAGER` showing compressed mpstat.1.xz content.)
Disable manual page compression during build and thus defer it to Nix:
```
gzipping man pages under /nix/store/wl2dwl1lhs9g5w2d5dhr0pcskp78nz42-sysstat-12.4.5/share/man/
```
This also avoids potential runtime incompatibilites in sysstat
(I am not a `services.systat` user).
Semi-automatic update generated by https://github.com/ryantm/nixpkgs-update tools.
This update was made based on information from https://repology.org/metapackage/sysstat/versions.
These checks were done:
- built on NixOS
- /nix/store/gz1jvhynz6ixwh9z33kw5fi603nq090q-sysstat-11.7.4/bin/sar passed the binary check.
- /nix/store/gz1jvhynz6ixwh9z33kw5fi603nq090q-sysstat-11.7.4/bin/sadf passed the binary check.
- /nix/store/gz1jvhynz6ixwh9z33kw5fi603nq090q-sysstat-11.7.4/bin/iostat passed the binary check.
- /nix/store/gz1jvhynz6ixwh9z33kw5fi603nq090q-sysstat-11.7.4/bin/tapestat passed the binary check.
- /nix/store/gz1jvhynz6ixwh9z33kw5fi603nq090q-sysstat-11.7.4/bin/mpstat passed the binary check.
- /nix/store/gz1jvhynz6ixwh9z33kw5fi603nq090q-sysstat-11.7.4/bin/pidstat passed the binary check.
- /nix/store/gz1jvhynz6ixwh9z33kw5fi603nq090q-sysstat-11.7.4/bin/cifsiostat passed the binary check.
- 7 of 7 passed binary check by having a zero exit code.
- 0 of 7 passed binary check by having the new version present in output.
- found 11.7.4 with grep in /nix/store/gz1jvhynz6ixwh9z33kw5fi603nq090q-sysstat-11.7.4
- directory tree listing: https://gist.github.com/099df05f7cbb5510144a7b1741ff0fda
- du listing: https://gist.github.com/21956b2e9d623a7923391b59af578f7e
Semi-automatic update generated by https://github.com/ryantm/nixpkgs-update tools.
This update was made based on information from https://repology.org/metapackage/sysstat/versions.
These checks were done:
- built on NixOS
- ran ‘/nix/store/2f4cmqnz0wn43pyq8qnlb7pvhk3gh7bq-sysstat-11.7.3/bin/sar --help’ got 0 exit code
- ran ‘/nix/store/2f4cmqnz0wn43pyq8qnlb7pvhk3gh7bq-sysstat-11.7.3/bin/iostat -h’ got 0 exit code
- ran ‘/nix/store/2f4cmqnz0wn43pyq8qnlb7pvhk3gh7bq-sysstat-11.7.3/bin/iostat help’ got 0 exit code
- ran ‘/nix/store/2f4cmqnz0wn43pyq8qnlb7pvhk3gh7bq-sysstat-11.7.3/bin/pidstat -h’ got 0 exit code
- ran ‘/nix/store/2f4cmqnz0wn43pyq8qnlb7pvhk3gh7bq-sysstat-11.7.3/bin/cifsiostat -h’ got 0 exit code
- ran ‘/nix/store/2f4cmqnz0wn43pyq8qnlb7pvhk3gh7bq-sysstat-11.7.3/bin/cifsiostat help’ got 0 exit code
- found 11.7.3 with grep in /nix/store/2f4cmqnz0wn43pyq8qnlb7pvhk3gh7bq-sysstat-11.7.3
- directory tree listing: https://gist.github.com/1274e29f5a0476b26643f85767b98e40
Semi-automatic update. These checks were performed:
- built on NixOS
- ran `/nix/store/m8nm4ifgh3j31wnlz6ixn737d29sv3dx-sysstat-11.7.2/bin/sar --help` got 0 exit code
- ran `/nix/store/m8nm4ifgh3j31wnlz6ixn737d29sv3dx-sysstat-11.7.2/bin/sar -V` and found version 11.7.2
- ran `/nix/store/m8nm4ifgh3j31wnlz6ixn737d29sv3dx-sysstat-11.7.2/bin/sar --help` and found version 11.7.2
- ran `/nix/store/m8nm4ifgh3j31wnlz6ixn737d29sv3dx-sysstat-11.7.2/bin/sadf -V` and found version 11.7.2
- ran `/nix/store/m8nm4ifgh3j31wnlz6ixn737d29sv3dx-sysstat-11.7.2/bin/iostat -h` got 0 exit code
- ran `/nix/store/m8nm4ifgh3j31wnlz6ixn737d29sv3dx-sysstat-11.7.2/bin/iostat help` got 0 exit code
- ran `/nix/store/m8nm4ifgh3j31wnlz6ixn737d29sv3dx-sysstat-11.7.2/bin/iostat -V` and found version 11.7.2
- ran `/nix/store/m8nm4ifgh3j31wnlz6ixn737d29sv3dx-sysstat-11.7.2/bin/tapestat -V` and found version 11.7.2
- ran `/nix/store/m8nm4ifgh3j31wnlz6ixn737d29sv3dx-sysstat-11.7.2/bin/mpstat -V` and found version 11.7.2
- ran `/nix/store/m8nm4ifgh3j31wnlz6ixn737d29sv3dx-sysstat-11.7.2/bin/pidstat -h` got 0 exit code
- ran `/nix/store/m8nm4ifgh3j31wnlz6ixn737d29sv3dx-sysstat-11.7.2/bin/pidstat -V` and found version 11.7.2
- ran `/nix/store/m8nm4ifgh3j31wnlz6ixn737d29sv3dx-sysstat-11.7.2/bin/cifsiostat -h` got 0 exit code
- ran `/nix/store/m8nm4ifgh3j31wnlz6ixn737d29sv3dx-sysstat-11.7.2/bin/cifsiostat help` got 0 exit code
- ran `/nix/store/m8nm4ifgh3j31wnlz6ixn737d29sv3dx-sysstat-11.7.2/bin/cifsiostat -V` and found version 11.7.2
- found 11.7.2 with grep in /nix/store/m8nm4ifgh3j31wnlz6ixn737d29sv3dx-sysstat-11.7.2
- found 11.7.2 in filename of file in /nix/store/m8nm4ifgh3j31wnlz6ixn737d29sv3dx-sysstat-11.7.2
cc "@eelco"
