intent to retire: kudzu

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Nov 9 20:28:04 UTC 2009


On 11/10/2009 01:58 AM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> I'd like to retire kudzu for F-13.
> 
> Why?
> - There are places where it almost certainly does not work with current kernels
> - It's so deprecated that one of its replacements (HAL) has since been
>   frozen and deprecated
> - Given that, its upstream is very dead 
> 
> However, it is still being required by two programs:
> - hwbrowser
> - fwfstab
> 
> If someone wants to keep it limping along for thsese two programs I can
> orphan it. But I'd really rather just retire it.

I filed a bug report against these programs a while back to move away
from Kudzu. Neither of these programs themselves seem to be actively
maintained anymore.

Rahul




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