intent to retire: kudzu

[Nils Philippsen]

On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 16:45 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 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.

I've retired hwbrowser in Rawhide/F-13 as well, it doesn't make sense to
keep it around as it can't handle much of the the new hardware, i.e.
anything kudzu doesn't know.

Nils
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