need help with a package

[Jon VanAlten]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alexander Aristotle Davis" <aadavis1 at myseneca.ca>
> To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" <devel at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Cc: "jon vanalten" <jon.vanalten at redhat.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 5:58:27 AM
> Subject: RE: need help with a package
> 
> hello Jon,
> 
> thanks for responding to my email,
> 
> I will like to keep the package alive.
> 
> 
> I am already a member of FAS2, I am having trouble taking over the
> package can you guide me on the steps necessary to take ownership of
> the package
> I have made changes to the release when I first download the package.
> The package original version and release is 2.3.3-2 and the new
> version and release is 2.3.3-3.
> 

Hi Alex,

As I tried to communicate in prior email, a first step to taking
ownership of a package in Fedora is to become part of the packagers
group.  I included a link to how that process works.

RE: keeping the package alive, again from the sounds of things the
security bug will need to be fixed.  Note that in the security bug
it is already said that if nobody is able to do that, the package
should be removed from fedora/epel.

Bumping the release in the package without making meaningful change
to the package is not incredibly helpful.  Besides, from what I can
see in git there already exists a -3 release in all active branches,
it's actually up to -4 in f18 and rawhide.  I wonder what sources
you started from, since it seems like you have most of the same spec
as in git, but missing most of the changelog.

Please spend some time on the wiki[1], I think most of the questions
you have are answered.  Giving you a short cut easy step by step
answer on the mailing list will only keep you from actually learning
the tools and policies that are necessary for fedora contributors.
The wiki is there to (hopefully) answer any questions a new contributor
might have.  If you've gone through the stuff there, and the picture
is still not clear, please do come back to list with questions :)

cheers,
jon

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Package_Maintainers