2010/7/7 Ralf Corsepius <rc040203(a)freenet.de>:
On 07/07/2010 03:21 PM, Marcela Mašláňová wrote:
> After I gained so much popularity on fedora-devel, I have no courage to
> ask rel-eng for another
> favour like "remove package, which is not mine". But surely ping
> maintainers
> to orphan/kill these packages in week or two would be nice.
>
They all are being pinged daily - All of these packages are included
inside of the broken deps reports.
> I suppose packages, which won't be fixed, have: A/ dead upstream, B/
> no-one is using them. Therefore I agree with removal.
Well, these packages all carry broken deps and are uninstallable in rawhide.
I.e. unless they can be fixed, it's only a matter of whether _we_ kill
them or whether rel-eng/FTBS will kill them later.
But do we have the authority (either individually, or collectively as
the SIG) to arbitrarily kill off broken packages? I suspect it may be
necessary to initiate the nonresponsive maintainer process.
--
Iain.