Re: [RFC] Putting extra package maintenance in maint/ subdirs

Hi,

On 2026/07/20 13:12, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Mon, 2026-07-20 at 12:22 +0200, Jaco Kroon wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Have we reached a decision on this?  Got a case now where this would be
>> useful.
>>
> No.  It was bikeshedded to the point where it would be more inconvenient
> than not doing anything, so I just put the script into files/ per the
> old custom.
That's a shame.

I've got scripts that picks up on unused files in files/, guessing 
there's nothing stopping me from creating maint/ under files/ and 
putting the stuff there?  Feels like that's cluttering the final 
::gentoo "release" tree though ... what would it take to resurrect this?

I see the most complete objection was app-portage/kuroo - but that seems 
to operate on post-rsync releases, so not sure if adding main/ under 
cat/pkg dirs would actually affect that?

Re-scanning the thread I don't see (probably missing it) any major 
objections.  So what's blocking this, and can I help?

Based on this scan it sounds like two proposals that's constructive to 
each other:

per-package maint/
per-group folder /maint/group

I'd then propose for all project that uses scripts from group either 
symlink maint/ to that, or in case there being package specific 
scriptsin addition to the group packages (or multiple groups of support 
scripts), a maint/{group} symlink to those.

What's the effort to have tools ignore these folders if not already the 
case?

Kind regards,
Jaco