Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

[Matt Domsch]

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 09:01:20PM +0100, Till Maas wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 01:17:28PM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:00:50AM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote:
> > > The following 30 packages, with respective FTBFS bugs, have been open
> > > since the Fedora 11 time frame, and continue to fail to build.  These
> > > are the oldest non-building packages in the distribution, everything
> > > else (over 8800) managed to build for Fedora 12 or newer already.
> > 
> > At today's FESCo meeting, it was agreed that all the below packages
> > would be marked orphan.  I know several of these have been fixed by
> > provenpackagers already - you are welcome to un-orphan and maintain
> > them going forward, or the original package owner may choose to do so.
> 
> What about the other packages of these maintainers? E.g. in the
> recordmydesktop case, there were four bugs open with working patches
> attached for that package. I did not yet check the other packages, but
> in case a packager does not have the time anymore to maintain one
> package from this list, why do we assume that he has the time to
> maintain the others?
> So before the mass orphaning is done, it would be nice to do it in a way
> that allows to at least easily spot which maintainers owned the packages
> before the orphage, so non responsive maintainers can be found easier.
> Or tell all maintainers in question and orphan all their packages. But
> the current solution seems to be only half-baked.

I made sure that no one who fixed a package was actually the package
owner.

Pre-orphaning:

evolution-brutus   bpepple
geronimo-specs     fnasser
gmfsk              bjensen  (fixed by caolanm)
gnome-scan         deji
Io-language        orphan (fixed by caolanm)
knm_new-fonts      orphan
libFoundation      athimm
ohm                cjb  (should be dead)
perl-AnyEvent-XMPP allisson (WIP by spot)
perl-Class-InsideOut cweyl (fixed by Ralf)
perl-Jemplate        cweyl (fixed by Spot)
perl-MooseX-Traits-Attribute-CascadeClear cweyl (spot says kill it)
perl-RRD-Simple cweyl (spot says kill it)
perl-SVN-Mirror iburrell (fixed by Till Maas; spot says kill it)
perl-SVN-Simple iburrell
prctl karsten
qtiplot frankb
skychart lkundrak
smarteiffel orphan
synce-kde awjb
unifdef dwmw2
widelands karlik (WIP by hdegoede)
xpilot-ng wart (fixed by hdegoede)
xqilla10 orphan
xqilla orphan

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Matt Domsch
Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux