Purging the F13 orphans

Till Maas opensource at till.name
Thu Jan 28 11:10:23 UTC 2010


On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 10:41:52AM +0000, Mat Booth wrote:
> On 28 January 2010 01:03, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
> > It's that time of the release cycle again, to purge the orphans before
> > we get to feature freeze.  Any unblocked orphans will be purged by the
> > feature freeze.  A list of unblocked orphans and the broken deps they
> > would cause is at the end of this email.
> >
> > Taking ownership of an orphan on the devel collection will prevent them
> > from being blocked.  Remember, it is OK to let software die.  Don't view
> > this as a list of things that somebody should pick up if they have the
> > spare time.  Things should only be revived if there are actual users in
> > need of the software.
> >
> > Unblocked orphan recordmydesktop
> >
> > Orphan: recordmydesktop
> >    gtk-recordmydesktop requires recordmydesktop = 0.3.8.1-4.fc13
> >    qt-recordmydesktop requires recordmydesktop = 0.3.8.1-4.fc13
> >
> >
> 
> The previous maintainer of recordmydesktop still owns the other
> *-recordmydesktop packages, which seems odd.
> 
> I'm CC'ing the maintainer: Did you mean to orphan recordmydesktop, sindrepb?

recordmydesktop was orphaned, because of an neglected FTBFS bug. I
started a fast track non responsive maintainer process for sindrepb, I
guess all his packages will be orphaned after next FESCo meeting.

Regards
Till
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