[EPEL-devel] Orphaned Packages in epel7 (2014-11-01)

[Till Maas]

Hi,

On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 02:10:40PM -0800, Lokesh Mandvekar wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 01, 2014 at 10:28:40PM +0000, opensource at till.name wrote:
> > golang-github-gorilla-         orphan, golang-sig, lsm5,      20 weeks ago  
> > context                        mattdm, vbatts                               
> > golang-github-gorilla-mux      orphan, golang-sig, lsm5,      20 weeks ago  
> >                                mattdm, vbatts                               
> > golang-github-kr-pty           orphan, golang-sig, lsm5,      20 weeks ago  
> >                                mattdm                                       
> > golang-googlecode-net          orphan, golang-sig,            20 weeks ago  
> >                                jchaloup, lsm5, mattdm,                      
> >                                vbatts                                       
> > golang-googlecode-sqlite       orphan, golang-sig, lsm5,      20 weeks ago  
> 
> I did retire these packages before they got into RHEL7. Is it that their
> builds still exist? IIRC, there was a bug in fedpkg because of which
> 'fedpkg retire' didn't delete the build (did happen with docker-io),
> perhaps that was the case here too?

Yes, there were some bugs in fedpkg which are corrected now. I now made
sure that they are properly retired. They should be removed from the
EPEL repos with the next updates push.

Regards
Till