Re: Over 500 orphaned packages seeking new maintainers
On 29. 07. 19 16:44, Todd Zullinger wrote:
Hi,
Pavel Cahyna wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 12:59:22PM +0200, Miro Hrončok wrote:
>> On 29. 07. 19 12:37, Miro Hrončok wrote:
>>> The following packages are orphaned and will be retired when they
>>> are orphaned for six weeks, unless someone adopts them. If you know for sure
>>> that the package should be retired, please do so now with a proper reason:
>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_remove_a_package_at_end_of_life
>>>
>>> Note: If you received this mail directly you (co)maintain one of the
affected
>>> packages or a package that depends on one. Please adopt the affected package
or
>>> retire your depending package to avoid broken dependencies, otherwise your
>>> package will be retired when the affected package gets retired.
>>>
>>> See the full report:
https://churchyard.fedorapeople.org/orphans-2019-07-28.txt
>>> Grep it for your FAS username and follow the dependencies.
>> ~380 packages can be unblocked if git stops buildrequiring jgit.
>
> This dependency is only for the testsuite. Todd, do you remember what
> tests required it? (It was added in commit 6dc62852).
As it happens, I do. There are 3 tests (out of many
thousands) in the git test suit which use jgit. They test
compatibility of the packfile format and ls-remote protocol.
They're nice to have, but if jgit is another casualty of
modularity, then it's easy to drop it.
It's a mild shame, since jgit was just fixed after a few
months of failing to even start.
I'll remove the jgit dep in rawhide shortly. Thanks for the
heads up Miro. And hi Pavel. :)
Note that jgit is not (yet) orphaned nor retired, and its dependencies might be
picked up by somebody. I suggest to remove the dep in rawhide temporarily (to
make the next weeks reports more readable and shorter to calculate (the present
one took 2 days)). Once the dust settles, the dependency can be added back.
Thanks,
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