Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 20:04 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:17:21 +0100, Milos wrote:
> 
> > On 15.1.2010 07:00, Matt Domsch wrote:
> > 
> > > synce-kde-0.9.1-4.fc11.src.rpm
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539195
> > 
> > Synce-kde should be EOL'd already a long time (it has been replaced
> by 
> > something else, can't remember details unfortunately anymore) -- I
> spoke 
> > about this with the maintainer some months ago and wonder this is
> still 
> > on the list...
> 
> I only remember that synce-hal replaced synce-serial, ... but in case
> synce-kde really has been replaced by something, what is so difficult
> about removing files in cvs and adding a dead.package? I can
> understand
> that creating a releng ticket for the remaining steps is a bit of a
> hurdle,
> but removing files in cvs/devel is easy enough.

synce-kde is replaced by synce-kpm. The maintainer seems somewhat
erratic in his availability - I may ask to be made a co-maintainer for
the synce stuff so I can take a shot at keeping it up to date (I really
need to look into whether opensync 0.4 is vaguely usable yet).
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