[ACTION REQUIRED] Retiring packages in F-16

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Jul 12 21:12:07 UTC 2011


Dave Jones (davej at redhat.com) said: 
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 03:28:59PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 
>  > Orphan ip6sic
> 
> I've used this from time to time. I'll pick it up.
> 
>  > Orphan minicom
>  > 	comaintained by: jcapik
> 
> If something is orphaned, but has comaintainers, is that enough to keep
> it in the distro ?

Not really - we'd like one of the comaintainers to pick it up as primary
maintainer. Once it gets closer to branch time, we may be poking
comaintainers individually to pick things up.

There's been talk of making pkgdb do that automatically on orphaning, but
it does not at this time.

Bill


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