is mgetty being maintained?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Fri Apr 6 14:41:32 UTC 2007


Don Russell wrote:
> mgetty on FC6 is at version 1.1.33-9 : 2005-04-10
> 
> I opened a new bug against it ( 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=232522 ) and in 
> doing some research to find the source code discovered there have been 
> two releases since then. Even the most recent is more than a yearold 
> now, but still not available via yum update.
> 
> 1.1.34 : 2005-11-30
> 1.1.35 : 2006-02-22
> 
> Is mgetty still being maintained as a Fedora component? Is it deprecated 
> and there is a replacement I should use instead?
> 
> I was going to see if I can fix the problem, but for all I know it is 
> already fixed in one of these newer releases.
> 
> How do I request that mgetty be updated in FC6? I think the package 
> maintainer has gone walk about so opening a new bugzilla report seems 
> ineffective: Another bug ( 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=217844 ), created 
> 2006-11-30 has never even been replied to. :-(
> 
> Which version will be in FC7? I can wait for FC7, that is only a month 
> or two away now.
> 
> Thank you.

This question is more suited for fedora-devel list. Ask there instead.

Rahul




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