Would like to claim deprecated package "brandy"

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Aug 1 20:17:37 UTC 2011


Chris Tyler (chris at tylers.info) said: 
> I just found out about the package "brandy" and was saddened to realize
> that I missed the orphan-deprecation announcement. I'd like to take this
> one.
> 
> Oddly, I see that the dead.package file states that:
> 
>         This package was retired on 2011-07-25 due to it being unable to
>         build this package for multiple releases (FTBFS).
>         
> However, it was built successfully for F15, and currently builds fine on
> both primary archs without change.

There was an error in the package retiring script that set the reason
for all of the recent retirees to FTBFS. My apologies.

Bill


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