[ACTION REQUIRED] Packages depending on retired packages

Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
Sun Sep 1 10:09:41 UTC 2013


On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Till Maas <opensource at till.name> wrote:

> 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.
>

There's been discussion over the last few releases of moving xine out of
the mainline Fedora release to rpmfusion but I'm not sure what happened
with that.

Peter
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