Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 01/15/2010 08:17 PM, 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.
>
>> awn-extras-applets-0.3.2.1-8.fc11.src.rpm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511628
>> evolution-brutus-1.2.35-2.fc11.src.rpm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511451
>> geronimo-specs-1.0-2.M2.fc10.src.rpm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511494
>> gmfsk-0.7-0.6.pre1.fc11.src.rpm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511780
>> gnome-scan-0.6.2-1.fc11.src.rpm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511591
>> Io-language-20071010-10.fc11.src.rpm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511617
>> knm_new-fonts-1.1-5.fc11.src.rpm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=555487
>> libFoundation-1.1.3-11.fc9.src.rpm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511470
>> ohm-0.1.1-9.39.20091215git.fc11.src.rpm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539200
>> perl-AnyEvent-XMPP-0.4-1.fc11.src.rpm  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511749
>> perl-Class-InsideOut-1.09-2.fc11.src.rpm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539136
>> perl-Jemplate-0.23-2.fc11.src.rpm  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=538984
>> perl-MooseX-Traits-Attribute-CascadeClear-0.03-2.fc11.src.rpm  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511570
>> perl-RRD-Simple-1.43-3.fc9.src.rpm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=464964
>> perl-SVN-Mirror-0.75-2.fc11.src.rpm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511770
>> perl-SVN-Simple-0.27-7.fc11.src.rpm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511729
>> prctl-1.4-5.2.1.src.rpm (last built July 12, 2006, ExclusiveArch ia64)
>> python-openhpi-1.1-3.fc11.src.rpm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511675
>> qtiplot-0.9-11.fc11.src.rpm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511688
>> recordmydesktop-0.3.8.1-1.fc11.src.rpm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=538931
>> skychart-3.0.1.5-6.20081026svn.fc11.src.rpm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539202
>> smarteiffel-2.3-2.fc9.src.rpm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511362
>> synce-kde-0.9.1-4.fc11.src.rpm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539195
>> unifdef-1.171-8.fc11.src.rpm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511553

>> widelands-0-0.13.Build13.fc11.src.rpm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511430
>> xpilot-ng-4.7.2-16.fc11.src.rpm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511717

Ah, how nice, these 2 are orphaned now and I cannot take ownership due to a pkgdb bug, just great!
Can some pkgdb admin please make me (jwrdegoede) the owner of xpilot-ng and widelands for devel ?

Thanks,

Hans