[ACTION REQUIRED v2] Retiring packages in F-16

[Daniel Veillard]

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 09:26:25AM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> 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!

  Ah, okay, there is an explanation, I was a bit puzzled to not see
the "take ownership" button though it was owned by orphan, I was
thinking the feature wasn't available anymore.

  thanks !

Daniel


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