bchunk: dead package

Conrad Meyer cemeyer at u.washington.edu
Tue Jul 14 19:30:03 UTC 2009


On Tuesday 14 July 2009 03:56:34 am Michael Schwendt wrote:
> https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/1977
>
> bchunk is said to be obsolete, because "shntool" (also in Fedora) would
> be superior. If you disagree and find a good reason to adopt bchunk, please
> find a solution for the open ticket.
>
> Originally, I had sponsored Alan Olson (alano) when he wanted to take over
> this old package in Fedora. A deal that hasn't worked out this time. The
> single bugzilla ticket (#439661)is without a response/action since over a
> year. And attempts at contacting alano via private mail and bugzilla have
> been fruitless. As such, I've removed him from the FAS Packager group, too.

>From reading the ticket[0], it looks like the Debian patch solves the issue -- 
I would like to take the package.

[0]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=439661

Regards,
-- 
Conrad Meyer <cemeyer at u.washington.edu>




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