Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

[Till Maas]

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.

Why were the packages only orphaned for devel and not all supported
branches? It is kind of strange to have a new maintainer only for devel,
but not for the other branches as the qtiplot case shows.

Regards
Till
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