Re: retiring git-annex

[Thomas Haller]

On Sun, 2017-05-28 at 17:39 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>  On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 04:00:32PM +0200, Björn 'besser82'
> Esser
>  wrote:
>  > Am 27.05.2017 um 15:13 schrieb Jens-Ulrik Petersen:
>  > > Hi,
>  > > 
>  > > I think we need to retire git-annex from Fedora (the current
>  > > version is very old and has security issues), since to build
>  > > current versions needs adding a lot of new Haskell dependencies
>  > > to
>  > > Fedora.
>  > > 
>  > > Currently noone has expressed interested in doing this... I plan
>  > > to make a copr repo later at some point. So unless someone wants
>  > > to help do a lot of package reviews, I think it is better just to
>  > > retire git-annex from Fedora for now.
>  > > 
>  > > I will do that next week unless someone volunteers to do all the
>  > > work to update.
>  > > 
>  > > I am writing on behalf of Ben who is on away and the Haskell SIG.
>  > > 
>  > > Thanks, Jens
>  > 
>  > Well, if someone would file the needed dependencies for review, I'd
>  > be happy to review them; just drop me a mail with all links to
>  > rhbz…
>  
>  I can help reviews too.  I also need git-annex!
>  
>  Rich. 

Me too. I'd like to help
(I'm still unfamiliar with Haskell)


Thomas