[ACTION REQUIRED] Packages depending on retired packages

Till Maas opensource at till.name
Sat Aug 31 19:36:49 UTC 2013


On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 06:06:16PM +0200, Nicolas Chauvet wrote:
> 2013/8/29 Till Maas <opensource at till.name>
> 
> > On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 10:53:53PM +0200, Till Maas wrote:
> >
> > >       Package                            (co)maintainers
> > >
> > ===========================================================================
> > > directfb               orphan, kwizart
> >
> > > tslib                  orphan
> >
> > These seem to be retired by accident:
> > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-June/183702.html
> >
> > Nicolas, can you please comment on this?
> >
> Yep I've retired this package. At that time the directfb project was more
> and more relying on an external kernel module to be full featured. I've
> probably missed to block this package at that time.

Directfb is now blocked in f20+ and dead.packaged in GIT. xine-lib
maintainer need to rebuild without directfb support, which is already
the default for arm.

Regards
Till


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