Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

Till Maas opensource at till.name
Sat Jan 16 09:39:54 UTC 2010


On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 04:05:04PM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:58:54 +0100
> Till Maas <opensource at till.name> wrote:

> > > perl-SVN-Mirror iburrell (fixed by Till Maas; spot says kill it)
> > > perl-SVN-Simple iburrell
> > 
> > There is a minor error: I fixed the -Simple package with a patch
> > submitted in the upstream bugtracker iirc 7 days ago. But I also
> > noticed that the -Mirror package was removed from debian.
> > 
> > But what about the other packages from this maintainer? He maintains
> > around 36 other packages:
> > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/users/packages/iburrell
> >
> > E.g. the jigdo packages also has 4 bug. I looked at two an both did
> > not receive any comments from the maintainer:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=426847
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503833
> 
> Indeed. I don't see much activity from them. 
> Have you tried sending them an email? 
> If not, I can.

No, please go ahead.

Regards
Till
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