duckstation: remove due to lack of viable upstream #430501
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Remove duckstation due to absence of upstream for nearly a year now.
Remove duckstation-bin due to absence of upstream for nearly a year now.
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@normalcea should this be backported? |
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I don't think that would be necessary, duckstation doesn't seem to have any known vulnerabilities and we are still within our rights to distribute the GPL copies of it. I'm assuming that users who desire to use duckstation don't want to be using our year old archive of it and would rather use the appimage/flatpak from upstream. |
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This is a revitalization of the now defunct `duckstation` package that preceded this one which tracked the earlier GPL3 licensed version of Duckstation before it's removal in NixOS#430501 (revision: f5cb574)
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This is a revitalization of the now defunct `duckstation` package that preceded this one which tracked the earlier GPL3 licensed version of Duckstation before it's removal in NixOS#430501 (revision: f5cb574) This is a soft-revert of duckstation's removal and placing it under the `duckstation-unofficial` attribute.
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This is a revitalization of the now defunct `duckstation` package that preceded this one which tracked the earlier GPL3 licensed version of Duckstation before it's removal in NixOS#430501 (revision: f5cb574) This is a soft-revert of duckstation's removal and placing it under the `duckstation-unofficial` attribute, most of the previously submitted code and patches still apply and this commit squashes everything together into one package file and thus is a combination of work done by different authors, listed below: Co-developed-by: Marcin Serwin <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: Anderson Torres <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: OPNA2608 <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: qubitnano <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: PedroHLC ☭ <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: Artturin <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: Guillaume Bouchard <[email protected]>
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This is a soft-revert of duckstation's removal in NixOS#430501 (revision: f5cb574) and placing it under the `duckstation-unofficial` attribute, most of the previously submitted code and patches still apply and this commit squashes everything together into one package file and thus is a combination of work done by different authors, listed below: Co-developed-by: Marcin Serwin <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: Anderson Torres <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: OPNA2608 <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: qubitnano <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: PedroHLC ☭ <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: Artturin <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: Guillaume Bouchard <[email protected]>
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This is a soft-revert of duckstation's removal in NixOS#430501 (revision: f5cb574) and placing it under the `duckstation-unofficial` attribute, most of the previously submitted code and patches still apply and this commit squashes everything together into one package file and thus is a combination of work done by different authors, listed below: Co-developed-by: Marcin Serwin <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: Anderson Torres <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: OPNA2608 <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: qubitnano <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: PedroHLC ☭ <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: Artturin <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: Guillaume Bouchard <[email protected]>
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This is a soft-revert of duckstation's removal in NixOS#430501 (revision: f5cb574) and placing it under the `duckstation-unofficial` attribute, most of the previously submitted code and patches still apply and this commit squashes everything together into one package file and thus is a combination of work done by different authors, listed below: Co-developed-by: Marcin Serwin <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: Anderson Torres <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: OPNA2608 <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: qubitnano <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: PedroHLC ☭ <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: Artturin <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: Guillaume Bouchard <[email protected]>
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This is a soft-revert of duckstation's removal in NixOS#430501 (revision: f5cb574) and placing it under the `duckstation-unofficial` attribute, most of the previously submitted code and patches still apply and this commit squashes everything together into one package file and thus is a combination of work done by different authors, listed below: Co-developed-by: Marcin Serwin <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: Anderson Torres <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: OPNA2608 <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: qubitnano <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: PedroHLC ☭ <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: Artturin <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: Guillaume Bouchard <[email protected]>
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This is a soft-revert of duckstation's removal in NixOS#430501 (revision: f5cb574) and placing it under the `duckstation-unofficial` attribute, most of the previously submitted code and patches still apply and this commit squashes everything together into one package file and thus is a combination of work done by different authors, listed below: Co-developed-by: Marcin Serwin <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: Anderson Torres <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: OPNA2608 <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: qubitnano <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: PedroHLC ☭ <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: Artturin <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: Guillaume Bouchard <[email protected]>
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This is a soft-revert of duckstation's removal in NixOS#430501 (revision: f5cb574) and placing it under the `duckstation-unofficial` attribute which supports both linux and darwin platforms, most of the previously submitted code and patches still apply and this commit squashes everything together into one package file and thus is a combination of work done by different authors, listed below to the best of my ability: Co-developed-by: Marcin Serwin <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: Anderson Torres <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: OPNA2608 <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: qubitnano <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: PedroHLC ☭ <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: Artturin <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: Guillaume Bouchard <[email protected]>
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This is a soft-revert of duckstation's removal in NixOS#430501 (revision: f5cb574) and placing it under the `duckstation-unofficial` attribute which supports both linux and darwin platforms, most of the previously submitted code and patches still apply and this commit squashes everything together into one package file and thus is a combination of work done by different authors, listed below to the best of my ability: Co-developed-by: Marcin Serwin <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: Anderson Torres <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: OPNA2608 <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: qubitnano <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: PedroHLC ☭ <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: Artturin <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: Guillaume Bouchard <[email protected]>
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This is a soft-revert of duckstation's removal in NixOS#430501 (revision: f5cb574) and placing it under the `duckstation-unofficial` attribute which supports both linux and darwin platforms, most of the previously submitted code and patches still apply and this commit squashes everything together into one package file and thus is a combination of work done by different authors, listed below to the best of my ability: Co-developed-by: Marcin Serwin <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: Anderson Torres <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: OPNA2608 <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: qubitnano <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: PedroHLC ☭ <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: Artturin <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: Guillaume Bouchard <[email protected]>
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This is a soft-revert of duckstation's removal in NixOS#430501 (revision: f5cb574) and placing it under the `duckstation-unofficial` attribute which supports both linux and darwin platforms, most of the previously submitted code and patches still apply and this commit squashes everything together into one package file and thus is a combination of work done by different authors, listed below to the best of my ability: Co-developed-by: Marcin Serwin <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: Anderson Torres <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: OPNA2608 <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: qubitnano <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: PedroHLC ☭ <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: Artturin <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: Guillaume Bouchard <[email protected]>
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This is a soft-revert of duckstation's removal in NixOS#430501 (revision: f5cb574) and placing it under the `duckstation-unofficial` attribute which supports both linux and darwin platforms, most of the previously submitted code and patches still apply and this commit squashes everything together into one package file and thus is a combination of work done by different authors, listed below to the best of my ability: Co-developed-by: Marcin Serwin <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: Anderson Torres <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: OPNA2608 <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: qubitnano <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: PedroHLC ☭ <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: Artturin <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: Guillaume Bouchard <[email protected]>
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This is a soft-revert of duckstation's removal in NixOS#430501 (revision: f5cb574) and placing it under the `duckstation-unofficial` attribute which supports both linux and darwin platforms, most of the previously submitted code and patches still apply and this commit squashes everything together into one package file and thus is a combination of work done by different authors, listed below to the best of my ability: Co-developed-by: Marcin Serwin <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: Anderson Torres <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: OPNA2608 <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: qubitnano <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: PedroHLC ☭ <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: Artturin <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: Guillaume Bouchard <[email protected]>
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This is a soft-revert of duckstation's removal in NixOS#430501 (revision: f5cb574) and placing it under the `duckstation-unofficial` attribute which supports both linux and darwin platforms, most of the previously submitted code and patches still apply and this commit squashes everything together into one package file and thus is a combination of work done by different authors, listed below to the best of my ability: Co-developed-by: Marcin Serwin <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: Anderson Torres <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: OPNA2608 <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: qubitnano <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: PedroHLC ☭ <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: Artturin <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: Guillaume Bouchard <[email protected]>
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This is a soft-revert of duckstation's removal in NixOS#430501 (revision: f5cb574) and placing it under the `duckstation-unofficial` attribute which supports both linux and darwin platforms, most of the previously submitted code and patches still apply and this commit squashes everything together into one package file and thus is a combination of work done by different authors, listed below to the best of my ability: Co-developed-by: Marcin Serwin <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: Anderson Torres <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: OPNA2608 <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: qubitnano <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: PedroHLC ☭ <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: Artturin <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: Guillaume Bouchard <[email protected]>
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As duckstation has not seen an alternative upstream taking up its maintenance and future versions of duckstation being unfree (edit: with a hostile upstream who wants no working relationship with downstreams), duckstation itself should be removed from nixpkgs. We have but not just limited to libretro's libreswan as an alternative Playstation 1 emulator.
The motivation for this change is bolstered by stenzek/duckstation@30df16c where the project leader expresses their frustration with downstreams and even threatens to drop the OS platform entirely.
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