[ACTION NO LONGER REQUIRED] Retired packages for F-17

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 13:44:34 +0000,
  "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> Well I take back some of what I said before.  In the new version
> (4.0.1) the cut-and-paste C code for reading and writing images has
> been replaced with use of the appropriate libraries (libpng, libjpeg,
> libungif, freetype).  This is very encouraging, and shows that this
> new upstream is back on track.
> 
> I'm still dubious about the image processing code, since that seems to
> duplicate the functionality of things like cairo, but at least (a)
> it's written in OCaml so it'll be robust from buffer overflows etc,
> and (b) it's not likely to be security sensitive because it doesn't
> read directly from image files.
> 
> Anyhow, go for it, don't let me discourage anyone from packaging
> things for Fedora.

Thanks for the comments. Having another person take a quick look at it
and have good things to say (at least relative to the old version)
is encouraging.