Intent to take ownership of deprecated package - maradns

[Tomasz Torcz]

Hi,

  I'd like to take ownership of “maradns” package.  It is a small DNS server, which
I do use.  I'd like to update version in Fedora to 2.0 branch and continue maintaining
it.
  maradns was deprecated some time ago.  In pkgdb I was able only to take F16 branch.
What
should I do to get F18, too?

-- 
Tomasz Torcz              ,,If you try to upissue this patchset I shall be seeking
xmpp: zdzichubg(a)chrome.pl   an IP-routable hand grenade.'' -- Andrew Morton
(LKML)

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 22:59:37 +0200
Tomasz Torcz <tomek(a)pipebreaker.pl&gt; wrote:

>  Hi,
>  
>    I'd like to take ownership of “maradns” package.  It is a small DNS
>  server, which I do use.  I'd like to update version in Fedora to 2.0
>  branch and continue maintaining it. maradns was deprecated some time
>  ago.  In pkgdb I was able only to take F16 branch. What should I do
>  to get F18, too? 
If a package is marked depreciated, you need to submit it for review
again. Once it passes review you get the newer branches and can ask
rel-eng to unblock it. 

Hope that helps, 

kevin

[Paul Wouters]

On Tue, 24 Jul 2012, Kevin Fenzi wrote:

> >   I'd like to take ownership of “maradns” package.  It is a
> small DNS
> > server, which I do use.  I'd like to update version in Fedora to 2.0
> > branch and continue maintaining it. maradns was deprecated some time
> > ago.  In pkgdb I was able only to take F16 branch. What should I do
> > to get F18, too?
>
>  If a package is marked depreciated, you need to submit it for review
>  again. Once it passes review you get the newer branches and can ask
>  rel-eng to unblock it. 
It's been abandoned by upstream and is known to have DNS implementation
issues. I'd strongly recommend you switch DNS software.

Paul

[Tomasz Torcz]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 07:48:48PM -0400, Paul Wouters wrote:
>  On Tue, 24 Jul 2012, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>  
>  >>  I'd like to take ownership of “maradns” package.  It is a small DNS
>  >>server, which I do use.  I'd like to update version in Fedora to 2.0
>  >>branch and continue maintaining it. maradns was deprecated some time
>  >>ago.  In pkgdb I was able only to take F16 branch. What should I do
>  >>to get F18, too?
>  >
>  >If a package is marked depreciated, you need to submit it for review
>  >again. Once it passes review you get the newer branches and can ask
>  >rel-eng to unblock it. 
  Thanks Kevin, just as I thought: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=840602
 
>  It's been abandoned by upstream and is known to have DNS
> implementation
>  issues. I'd strongly recommend you switch DNS software. 
  It is being maintained with minimal effort - author spends about an hour
monthly.  Security issues are dealt with special priority out-of-band.
Last entry in development blog was over last weekend, so it is not dead.

-- 
Tomasz Torcz              ,,If you try to upissue this patchset I shall be seeking
xmpp: zdzichubg(a)chrome.pl   an IP-routable hand grenade.'' -- Andrew Morton
(LKML)