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[Iain Arnell]

2010/7/7 Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de>:
> On 07/07/2010 03:21 PM, Marcela Mašláňová wrote:
>> After I gained so much popularity on fedora-devel, I have no courage to
>> ask rel-eng for another
>> favour like "remove package, which is not mine". But surely ping
>> maintainers
>> to orphan/kill these packages in week or two would be nice.
>>
> They all are being pinged daily - All of these packages are included
> inside of the broken deps reports.
>
>> I suppose packages, which won't be fixed, have: A/ dead upstream, B/
>> no-one is using them. Therefore I agree with removal.
> Well, these packages all carry broken deps and are uninstallable in rawhide.
>
> I.e. unless they can be fixed, it's only a matter of whether _we_ kill
> them or whether rel-eng/FTBS will kill them later.

But do we have the authority (either individually, or collectively as
the SIG) to arbitrarily kill off broken packages? I suspect it may be
necessary to initiate the nonresponsive maintainer process.

-- 
Iain.