#7: Policy and technical means for removing orphaned packages in EPEL
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Reporter: smooge | Owner: epel-wranglers
Type: task | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone:
Component: Policy problem | Version:
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Fedora ESCO has set a policy that packages that have been orphaned will be
automatically removed after 6 weeks from channels. till has been working
on a set of scripts to give proper notice of these orphaned packages and
the chain of dependencies so that other packagers can be prepared for
either taking up the package or their own package not working.
It was wondered if we should look at doing this in EPEL as we have had a
sort of policy on doing this but not a formal one. It was decided at the
2014-10-03 meeting to set up the scripts for reporting problems and then
seeing how big a hole we are in before doing any sort of auto-removal.
Further discussion is to be in this ticket and future meetings.
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