So let's say I wanted to grab some experiencing managing a package on
Fedora and I wanted to start with an orphaned package (say brightside,
though its upstream appears dead), what do I do first? How do I get an
account for Fedora PackageDB?
On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 22:08 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Richi Plana wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 18:29 +0200, Alain PORTAL wrote:
>> I ask for orphaning lftp because package maintainer doesn't maintain this
>> package since a long time.
>
> How are packages orphaned?
Package maintainers themselves announce that they are orphaning a
package and use the package database to abandon it or a package becomes
orphaned after someone else uses the AWOL policy.
And where does one go to adopt orphan
> packages?
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/OrphanedPackages
Rahul