EPEL Orphan or retire the TurboGears (v1) stack in 7

[Christopher Meng]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 9:19 PM, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 05:39:40AM +0000, Zhiwei Zhu wrote:
>> Hi Toshio,
>>
>> I have just noticed this message after I failed to install TurboGears (v1) on CentOS 7.
>>
>> We really need the TurboGears (v1) support via epel for el7.  Migrating away from TurboGears V1 to V2 or to other framework seems impossible for us at the moment, though we know that we will have to migrate in future.
>>
>> Could you help to suggest what we could do to revive these packages and have epel7 will still support TurboGears( v1 )?
>>
> Sure!  Become a package maintainer and maintain the packages that have
> become orphaned in EPEL7.
>
> Note that you won't need to revive all of the packages -- some of those were
> retired because they depend on TurboGears1 (for instance, bodhi).  You'll
> only need to revive the ones that TurboGears1 depends on (and those that
> your applications need).

"Best" solution.