intent to retire: kudzu

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Apr 13 20:45:49 UTC 2010


Bill Nottingham (notting at redhat.com) said: 
> 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 just noticed I hadn't actually done this yet. I've retired it for
F-14/rawhide; it can remain in F-13, although it's unlikely to see any
useful updates there.

Bill


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