[ACTION REQUIRED] Retiring packages in F-16

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Tue Jul 12 21:17:16 UTC 2011


On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 05:12:07PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
 
 > >  > Orphan minicom
 > >  > 	comaintained by: jcapik
 > > 
 > > If something is orphaned, but has comaintainers, is that enough to keep
 > > it in the distro ?
 > 
 > Not really - we'd like one of the comaintainers to pick it up as primary
 > maintainer. Once it gets closer to branch time, we may be poking
 > comaintainers individually to pick things up.
 > 
 > There's been talk of making pkgdb do that automatically on orphaning, but
 > it does not at this time.

I kinda rely on this package, so I'm prepared to step up if jcapik doesn't
want to be maintainer for whatever reason, though my efforts would strictly
be enough to just keeping it building.

	Dave



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