Bug 19818

Summary:	lifelines, a text-based geneaIogy program. (Was: I am prepared to maintain Lifelines if it is added to the distro.)
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws>
Component:	New RPM package request	Assignee:	All Packagers <pkg-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal	CC:	marja11
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://lifelines.sourceforge.net/
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	lifelines	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Doug Laidlaw 2016-11-19 00:13:58 CET

Description of problem:


Lifelines is a text-based genealogy program.  It runs in a terminal, and a graphical version has been written in Java.  I find it very useful.  I am running an old Mandriva RPM, which seems to have a 32-bit dependency.  There is a 64-bit RPM for SuSE.  It is rather clunky, and no longer maintained. The only upkeep would be to keep its libraries current.  Anything more technical, I probably couldn't handle.  It just occurred to me that the reports are written in a very old language, and may still require the 32-bit dependency.

Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2016-11-21 22:25:17 CET

Assigning this package request to all packagers collectively. On a voluntary basis, one of them might, if there are no license or other legal issues, want to integrate it to the distribution and maintain it for bug and security fixes.

However, Doug, since you'd like to maintain this piece of software, I suggest you take the needed steps to become a Mageia packager, see https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Becoming_a_Mageia_Packager :-D

Assignee: bugsquad => pkg-bugs
Source RPM: New package => lifelines
Severity: normal => enhancement
CC: (none) => marja11
Summary: I am prepared to maintain Lifelines if it is added to the distro. => lifelines, a text-based geneaIogy program. (Was: I am prepared to maintain Lifelines if it is added to the distro.)

Comment 2 sturmvogel 2022-04-02 17:37:04 CEST

(In reply to Doug Laidlaw from comment #0)
It is rather clunky, and no longer maintained.


Last release is from 2007! No project activity in news or forum since.

Closing as WONTFIX.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WONTFIX

Comment 3 Doug Laidlaw 2022-04-02 23:54:50 CEST

The text program uses a very old code, especially in Reports.  The Java version (https://sourceforge.net/projects/jlifelines/) is fully-featured.  I find it very useful for quick look-ups.

Regarding becoming a package maintainer, I am now 79 and self-taught in Linux.  I don't think I could do it, not for this program, anyway.

Comment 4 sturmvogel 2022-04-03 10:44:37 CEST

Hi Doug. The java version is even older and had its last release 2003! That means this project is dead since 20 years! The download statistics on sourceforge tells much: In 3 and a half years the sourcecode was only downloaded 70 times! It would need an real enthusiast who would make patch/fix/check vulnerabilitys before importing/packaging it for Mageia.

Comment 5 Doug Laidlaw 2022-04-03 11:47:19 CEST

Not only that, but the RPM I have is only 32-bit, and built in 2011 for Mandriva.  I find it convenient, but modern genealogists would see it as obsolete. The RPM says that the reports are "the power of the system," but the app is for a time when genealogy as a hobby was in its infancy.  Those reports can all be prepared by a newer program.