Fedora Orphaned Package Removal: November 29th 2007

Hans de Goede j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl
Tue Nov 20 19:30:34 UTC 2007


Hans de Goede wrote:
> Warren Togami wrote:
>> Fedora Engineering Steering Committee is considering removal of packages
>> from rawhide who have been without owners since prior to Fedora 8
>> sometime after the next FESCO meeting on November 29th.  The Fedora
>> Project routinely removes unmaintained packages from future
>> distributions in order to responsibly scale the growth of maintenance
>> burden with developer resources available within the project.
>>
>> http://fedorapeople.org/~wtogami/temp/rawhide-removals.txt
>> Packages listed on this page are scheduled for removal unless an
>> existing Fedora maintainer claims ownership.
>>
>> http://fedorapeople.org/~wtogami/temp/rawhide-removals.txt
>> A Fedora package developer may use their Fedora Account in PackageDB to
>> claim ownership of an orphaned package.
>>
>> Removal of an orphaned package entails "blocking" it in the buildsystem
>> so it does not appear in the rawhide repository, and files in CVS of the
>> "devel" branch being replaced with an empty "dead.package" file.  At a
>> later date if a Fedora package developer wishes to revive a dead package
>> they may do so by claiming ownership in pkgdb then requesting the koji
>> block to be removed.  It is however a bit easier if ownership is claimed
>> prior to orphan removal, so please claim packages now if possible.
>>
> 
> Hmm,
> 
> I see openct, opencs and pcsc-tools listed, didn't we go through a lot 
> of effort during FC-6 / F-7 to get smartcard support integrated, isn't 
> this need to support certain cards / features then?
> 
> I'm planning to start working with smartcards sometime soon, and I think 
> I will need these, but I'm not sure.
> 

Ok,

I've taken ownership of openct, opensc, pcsc-perl and pcsc-tools for now, as I 
plan to become a user of them in the near future, and I would hate tro seem 
them goaway.

co-maintainers much appreciated. Ville, perhaps you are willing to stay 
involved as co-maintainer?

Regards,

Hans





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