[ACTION REQUIRED v2] Retiring packages in F-16
Toshio Kuratomi
a.badger at gmail.com
Wed Jul 13 16:26:25 UTC 2011
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 06:06:37PM +0800, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 05:10:01PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > Each release, before branching, we block currently orphaned packages.
> > It's that time again for Fedora 16.
> >
> > New this go-round is that we are also blocking packages that have
> > failed to build since before Fedora 14.
> >
> > The following packages are currently orphaned, or fail to build. If
> > you have a need for one of these packages, please pick them up.
> >
> > This list has been fixed to properly show all orphaned packages. It's
> > a lot longer.
> [...]
> > Orphan libcmpiutil
> > comaintained by: veillard
> [...]
> > Orphan libvirt-cim
> > comaintained by: veillard
>
> I sent a mail to this very list one week ago:
>
> Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 09:07:57 +0800
> From: Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com>
> To: devel at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Subject: Taking ownership of libcmpiutil and libvirt-cim
>
> to avoid them being retired, never got an answer.
> At the time visiting
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/libcmpiutil
> didn't show any option to take ownership, was that a temporary
> failure, I'm sure I checked and was logged in, weird ...
>
Sorta. These packages were orphaned due to the maintainer not signing the
FPCA. When that script was run, I failed to properly set the status to
Orphaned which left you unable to take ownership. Sorry for missing your
earlier email about the problem and thanks for taking them now!
-Toshio
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