Remove a package from critpath ?

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 15:03 +0200, Xavier Bachelot wrote:
> On 09/15/2011 12:19 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:24:53 +0200,
> >    Xavier Bachelot<xavier at bachelot.org>  wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm maintaining the xorg-x11-drv-openchrome package, which provides the
> >> X driver for VIA IGPs and it never received any karma from a proven
> >> tester, most probably because this hardware is not available to any of them.
> >>
> >> So I think there are 3 options :
> >> - A proven tester with the hardware steps up and helps with this package.
> >> - The package is removed from CritPath.
> >> - All updates stays in the updates-testing repo forever.
> >>
> >> I can't find anything about removing a package from CritPath in the doc.
> >> Orphaning the package is not really an option I'm interested in ;-)
> >>
> >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Critical_path_package
> >
> > I thought there was already a plan afoot to allow graphics drivers other
> > than a few common ones, to not be in the crit path list.
> 
> I think I remember reading something about that, but I'll be glad to 
> refresh my memory on this topic and understand what the current plan is. 
> Can anyone point me where this idea is/was discussed ?

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-April/150464.html

I ping Adam about it every so often, but I think it's slipped down his
priority list.
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