gnome-scan package status confusion

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 18:34 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> Why is gnome-scan-0.6.2-7.fc15 offered in Fedora 16 when it has been
> retired months ago and is affected by serious crashers? The reports in
> bugzilla are without a reply from the assignee:
> 
>   http://bugz.fedoraproject.org/gnome-scan
> 
> Has it been retired without requesting rel-eng to block it from the
> repos?
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_remove_a_package_at_end_of_life
> 
> While trying to make a scanner work I discovered this in the repo,
> but it froze early while xsane works.
> 
> | [pkgdb] gnome-scan (un)retirement
> | Fedora PackageDB pkgdb at fedoraproject.org
> | Tue Aug 30 16:18:36 UTC 2011
> | 
> | Package gnome-scan in Fedora 16 has been retired by deji
> 
> 
> | URL         : http://home.gna.org/gnomescan/
> 
> 404 not found
> 
> Google search finds  
> 
>   http://projects.gnome.org/gnome-scan/index
>    -> http://gna.org/projects/gnomescan/
> 
> but it looks out-of-date/inactive.

On a side note, you might want to try Simple Scan (simple-scan). xsane
is more capable but its interface is hideous.
-- 
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora
http://www.happyassassin.net