Broken package EOL instructions (Was Re: Retire gstreamer-plugins-flumpegdemux in F14/devel?)

[Jesse Keating]

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On 08/06/2010 02:32 AM, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 17:23 +0800, Chen Lei wrote:
>> sudo yum install gstreamer-plugins-flumpegdemux
>>
>> Package gstreamer-plugins-flumpegdemux-0.10.15-8.fc13.x86_64 is
>> obsoleted by gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0.10.19-1.fc13.x86_64 which is
>> already installed
> 
> In http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/PackageEndOfLife :
>> git rm all the other files in the foo branches that you added
>> dead.package to. 
> 
> Except that:
> $ fedpkg commit -p -m "EOL package"
> Could not commit: No spec file found.
> 
> 
Yeah, that's my fault.  I am in the process of moving more of the git
wrapper functions out of the class that requires a spec file be around.
 Hopefully in the next big push of bugfixes I make (in the next few
days) this problem will go away.

Now that we have git though, it might be an opportunity to re-think the
end of life actions, and perhaps there is something we can do with git
hooks that can alert a cloner about the package being EOL on certain
branches, but don't mess with the content within, in case the package
gets brought back to life.  Discuss....

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Jesse Keating
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