[ACTION REQUIRED] Retiring packages for Fedora 21

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Thu May 29 14:42:35 UTC 2014


On 29/05/14 15:31, Jon Ciesla wrote:
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> On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com
> <mailto:mschwendt at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     On Thu, 29 May 2014 08:50:47 -0500, Jon Ciesla wrote:
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>      > On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 8:43 AM, Till Maas wrote:
>      >
>      > > Since the mass rebuild will start in a week (2014-06-06) it is
>     a good
>      > > time to start cleaning up Fedora. After the mass rebuild,
>     packages that
>      > > fail to build for two releases will be be added to this list.
>     Since this
>      > > is the first run after adapting the script to pkgdb2, there
>     might be
>      > > some errors here, please report them.
>      > >
>      > > <http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct>
>      >
>      > Many, many errors.  For one, curl isn't orphaned.
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>     The list only says that curl is affected because it depends on CUnit.
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>      > For another, CUnit is
>      > orphaned but has 3 comaintainters,
>
>     The list says "two".
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>      > not the huge number reported, unless I'm
>      > misunderstanding.
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>     Likely a misunderstanding. The list at the bottom tells which package
>     maintainers are affected by _any_ of the orphans, and in order to be
>     helpful, the list tells which soon to be retired package(s) each
>     maintainer
>     is affected by.
>
>
> I thought so.  If someone doesn't step up soon I'll take CUnit.

If you do, it'd be nice if you'd also branch and build it for EPEL-7 
(pretty please).

Paul.



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