Intent to take ownership of deprecated package - maradns

[Tomasz Torcz]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 07:48:48PM -0400, Paul Wouters wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jul 2012, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> 
> >>  I'd like to take ownership of “maradns” package.  It is a small DNS
> >>server, which I do use.  I'd like to update version in Fedora to 2.0
> >>branch and continue maintaining it. maradns was deprecated some time
> >>ago.  In pkgdb I was able only to take F16 branch. What should I do
> >>to get F18, too?
> >
> >If a package is marked depreciated, you need to submit it for review
> >again. Once it passes review you get the newer branches and can ask
> >rel-eng to unblock it.

  Thanks Kevin, just as I thought: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=840602
 
> It's been abandoned by upstream and is known to have DNS implementation
> issues. I'd strongly recommend you switch DNS software.

  It is being maintained with minimal effort - author spends about an hour
monthly.  Security issues are dealt with special priority out-of-band.
Last entry in development blog was over last weekend, so it is not dead.

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