Intent to take ownership of deprecated package - maradns

Paul Wouters paul at cypherpunks.ca
Tue Jul 24 23:48:48 UTC 2012


On Tue, 24 Jul 2012, Kevin Fenzi wrote:

>>   I'd like to take ownership of “maradns” package.  It is a small DNS
>> server, which I do use.  I'd like to update version in Fedora to 2.0
>> branch and continue maintaining it. maradns was deprecated some time
>> ago.  In pkgdb I was able only to take F16 branch. What should I do
>> to get F18, too?
>
> If a package is marked depreciated, you need to submit it for review
> again. Once it passes review you get the newer branches and can ask
> rel-eng to unblock it.

It's been abandoned by upstream and is known to have DNS implementation
issues. I'd strongly recommend you switch DNS software.

Paul


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