#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:8 pnemade]:
 > Again you are giving the same (for me it looks) unrelated reference of
 January epel-devel email. Note you ran the script without checking what
 got re-imported in epel5. I re-imported fontpackages because there were 2
 reasons

 In January I retired python26-distribute because nobody adopted it,
 Recently I mainly retired packages that had broken dependencies since then
 or before then, i.e. packages that cannot be properly installed or built
 again.

 >
 > 1) font packages was removed due to this
 >
 > 2) https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/fonts-
 bugs/2015-January/027474.html
 >
 > What Robert suggested there is the later thing as rpmdevetools itself
 caused the issues of removal of font packages. What I know is that your
 script has wasted my time of re-importing the fontpackages. You should
 first add more validations before running any such scripts and not to ask
 package maintainers to provide patches.

 There would be no need for this if you or whoever just adopted the
 orphaned packages.

 > I don't know why you emphasize so much on removal of orphaned packages.

 It makes sure that nobody installs packages from EPEL that are not really
 maintained and might contain unhandled security issues, see for example
 ticket:5963.

 > May I know why there is no owner shown for fontpackages and devjavu-
 fonts in https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/epel-
 devel/2015-March/010968.html ? That report referenced build fontpackages-
 devel-1.44-1.el5.2.noarch which is completed by me, see
 http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=610973

 I ran the script that created the report after I cleaned up broken
 dependencies.

 > Re-importing packages is not a big issues but Dennis insisted re-review
 of such packages and then there will be no review or reviewer for some
 time. You should also invest some time in re-reviewing such removed
 packages. All this process is a big pain.

 You do not need a re-review if it is unretired within two weeks.

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