Re: About retiring OmegaT from Fedora

[Yaakov Selkowitz]

On 2017-08-17 13:10, Ismael Olea wrote:
>  My first important package in Fedora was OmegaT[1]. AFAIK is the
> best
>  FLOSS computer aid translator tool available. With the time OmegaT has
>  been enjoying a very active development with a significant (to me)
>  handicap: new releases adds new features with new dependencies on java
>  libraries not available in Fedora. As you perfectly know, updating the
>  package requires to add each one of those libraries as new packages. But
>  I can't find the time for such that effort. That's the reason the last
>  Fedora version is 2.6.3 and the lasts at upstream are 3.6.0 / 4.1.2.
>  
>  So, I give up. I want to retire the package from Fedora because I'm sure
>  I will not be able to update it anymore. 
Then you should orphan it.  If nobody takes it up, then it will be
automatically retired.

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Yaakov Selkowitz
Software Engineer - Platform Enablement Group
Red Hat, Inc.