Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

[Ian Burrell]

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 1:58 PM, 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.
>

The SVN::Mirror module seems to have problems with subversion 1.6. The
author doesn't seem to have done anything with the module since 2008
including responding to the upstream bug. It will probably need to be
removed since I don't have the knowledge to fix it. The perl-SVK
package requires perl-SVN-Mirror but it is for an optional feature. I
could make a new package that removes the dependency.

> 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
>
> Therefore the non responsive maintainer procedure, i.e. orphaning all
> packages from the affected maintainers, seems to me to be more
> appropriate.
>

Sorry, I have been neglecting my packages for all the usual reasons.
I'll give them the attention they need.

 - Ian