Dark clowds at the sky...
We're facing the problem of unmaintained packages. E.g. Snort which was last built for Red Hat Linux 9 on 23-Apr-2003 and since then has neither been updated nor rebuilt for Fedora Core.
Or cfengine [1], which has binary builds of a security update waiting in the "pending" repository [2] since 2004-08-16, but nobody (including the package developer) doing the verification/approval step to get this published.
Anybody interested in taking over these packages?
I have the feeling that there may be more packages in such a state. If you know some, I'd like to know. Or file a bug report, please.
There's no requirement for packages to be the bleeding edge very latest upstream versions. But unmaintained/desolate packages, which are not available after a distribution upgrade, should be dealt with in some way.
On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 22:43, Michael Schwendt wrote:
I have the feeling that there may be more packages in such a state. If you know some, I'd like to know. Or file a bug report, please.
Setting up a central location for this info, eg. a Wiki page akin to Debian's WNPP [1], wouldn't be a bad idea.
On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 22:43, Michael Schwendt wrote:
I have the feeling that there may be more packages in such a state. If you know some, I'd like to know.
Forgot to say that http://www.fedora.us/wiki/FC2Status contains a couple of candidates; there has been no response from a maintainer for some FC2 build failure reports filed in Bugzilla.
Ville Skyttä wrote:
On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 22:43, Michael Schwendt wrote:
I have the feeling that there may be more packages in such a state. If you know some, I'd like to know.
Forgot to say that http://www.fedora.us/wiki/FC2Status contains a couple of candidates; there has been no response from a maintainer for some FC2 build failure reports filed in Bugzilla.
Dunno why kickpim is listed , but AFAIK, it's not obsolete and it should rebuild fine as-is on FC2
-- Rex