[Owner-change] Fedora packages ownership change

[Orion Poplawski]

On 07/10/2013 11:05 PM, Vít Ondruch wrote:
> 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

true.  Sorry, I should have announced my intent to orphan/retire before.

>> 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.

It is a different api I believe, so it really can't obsolete/provide 
ruby-mysql.

>>
>> 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

Oops, I had, but forgot to git push.  Too used to fedpkg commit -p I guess.

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