Remove a package from critpath ?

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Thu Sep 15 10:19:56 UTC 2011


On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:24:53 +0200,
  Xavier Bachelot <xavier at bachelot.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm maintaining the xorg-x11-drv-openchrome package, which provides the 
> X driver for VIA IGPs and it never received any karma from a proven 
> tester, most probably because this hardware is not available to any of them.
> 
> So I think there are 3 options :
> - A proven tester with the hardware steps up and helps with this package.
> - The package is removed from CritPath.
> - All updates stays in the updates-testing repo forever.
> 
> I can't find anything about removing a package from CritPath in the doc. 
> Orphaning the package is not really an option I'm interested in ;-)
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Critical_path_package

I thought there was already a plan afoot to allow graphics drivers other
than a few common ones, to not be in the crit path list.


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