Gentoo GURU now includes Laminar

Laminar describes itself as a fast, lightweight, and modular Continuous Integration service for Linux. The official Gentoo GURU overlay now makes the latest 1.3 release available for the wider community.

Gentoo GURU now includes Vale

Vale describes itself as a “syntax-aware linter for prose built with speed and extensibility in mind”. The official Gentoo GURU overlay now makes the v2.27.0 release available for the wider community.

Gentoo has xsel-1.2.1 among the firsts

xsel works great to “manipulate the X selection”. Last week I stepped up as proxied maintainer to help bring already merged improvements to Gentoo users despite lack of new releases since 2008.

Thanks to support from soap during the past week, upstream has merged all ebuild patches, tagged 1.2.1, and Gentoo already ships the latest version — among the first distros, according to repology.

Packaging vale-2.24.4 for Gentoo

Vale describes itself as a “syntax-aware linter for prose built with speed and extensibility in mind”. My overlay has the latest v2.24.4 release available for fellow Gentoo users.

I recommend previous users to continue reading about ebuild changes.

Host Gentoo dependency tarballs as GitHub releases

People who create Gentoo ebuilds for software written in Go probably noticed deprecation notices and discussion About EGO_SUM, and also about a Proposal to undeprecate EGO_SUM.

While the mailing lists and IRC channels provide plenty of opportunity to discuss how to supply dependencies for Go software, here I share a way to use GitHub releases to host dependency tarballs as an external Gentoo contributor, like proxied maintainer, GURU contributor, or overlay maintainer.

Update: see also Packaging Go dependencies for Gentoo as a follow-up post expanding on this topic.