[Owner-change] Fedora packages ownership change

[Vít Ondruch]

Dne 9.7.2013 17:52, Orion Poplawski napsal(a):
> On 07/09/2013 12:16 AM, Vít Ondruch wrote:
>> Dne 8.7.2013 12:00, nobody at fedoraproject.org napsal(a):
>>> ruby-mysql [devel] was orphaned by orion
>>>       A Ruby interface to MySQL
>>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/ruby-mysql
>>>
>>
>> Was this intentional? There is no replacement to this package in 
>> Fedora yet,
>> nor it was correctly deprecated.
>
> Nothing uses it that I can see. 

That is like claiming nothing uses Ruby on Rails we ship in Fedora or 
nothing uses LibreOffice

> rubygem-mysql2 is under review:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=974889
>
> and that should be used going forward.

Yes, it is ... but if you suggest that is should be used, it should 
probably obsolete ruby-mysql and that should be coordinated with 
rubygem-mysql2 maintainer. I am not aware of such suggestion.

>
> If someone really wants to resurrect this, I would suggest using this:
>
> http://www.cora.nwra.com/~orion/fedora/rubygem-mysql-2.9.1-1.fc19.src.rpm
>

BTW if you really like to retire ruby-mysql, you should do it properly 
at least, click on "retire package" in pkgdb is not enough. You should 
do step 2 from 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_remove_a_package_at_end_of_life


Vít