Unresponsive maintainers of dependent packages

Tomas Hozza thozza at redhat.com
Mon Dec 9 11:29:51 UTC 2013


Hi.

Before my question, little bit of introduction:
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I'm the maintainer of 'openobex' package (library) which
was rebased to the latest version in rawhide on the
end of September this year. The rebase was announced
2 weeks in advance on fedora-devel and I also CC-ed
all maintainers of dependent packages about the change.

There was an API change, so more work than just rebuilding
dependent packages is needed.

I emailed maintainers of dependent packages and also created
Bug [1] for each component, to track those rebuilds.

So far some dependent packages has been deprecated, but there
are still three that have broken dependencies and their
maintainers seem to not care.

Question:
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The main problem for me is that the buildsystem (koji) emails
me every day and for every dependent package that their dependencies
are broken. Can I ask these packages to be deprecated in rawhide,
or what can I do with them? I don't want to take maintenance
of those packages.


Dependent packages I have problem with are:
- obexfs
- obexftp
- libopensync-plugin-irmc

Thanks in advance for any help/opinion.

Regards,

Tomas Hozza

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1014160


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