#6127: send direct e-mails to (co)maintainers of orphaned packages

[Fedora Release Engineering]

#6127: send direct e-mails to (co)maintainers of orphaned packages
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  Reporter:  pnemade         |      Owner:  rel-eng@…
      Type:  enhancement     |     Status:  closed
 Milestone:  Fedora 22 Beta  |  Component:  epel
Resolution:  fixed           |   Keywords:
Blocked By:                  |   Blocking:
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Comment (by till):

 Replying to [comment:6 pnemade]:
 > Thanks but what about the requested feature in comment#4 ? You should
 send full package report affected to all such users. Like I own
 fontpackages, How would I know rpmdevtools is orphaned and is going to be
 removed? Please again don't ask to read generic emails.

 When I sent the e-mail, fontpackages was not yet built, therefore the
 scripts was not able to determine whether it depends on other packages or
 not. If it was already built, then you will get a copy of the e-mail and
 it contains an entry that shows you that you need to adopt rpmdevtools, if
 rpmdevtools is the reason why fontpackages will be retired.

 So if you look at
 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/epel-
 devel/2015-January/010770.html
 ralph got a copy of the e-mail directly, which indicates that one of his
 packages is affected, this is mentioned in the e-mail. Then if ralph
 searches for his fas name, he will find for example this line:

 ralph: zope, python26-distribute, python-paver

 This shows that he needs to adopt the three packages to packages to be
 retired he is affected by. If he wants to know which packages will be
 retired, he just needs to check which packages that depend on zope will be
 retired.

 So if you built fontpackages before I sent the e-mail, then you would have
 gotten a direct e-mail which shows you that you need to adopt all the
 orphaned dependencies for fontpackages to keep it from being retired.

 If in your opinion the description or format of the mail should be
 changed, please provide a patch or example text, otherwise I do not know
 how to improve it.

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