On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 23:04 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote: > On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 18:30 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: > > > I can do the Core side of the work, in fact I have already updated the > > package to a more recent version and made a few changes to the specfile. > > The question is, how do we handle removing the version in extras, in > > favour of the core version? Has this been done before? > > Yes, one recent example off the top of my head would be icu. > > Going from extras to core should be pretty straightforward; it's just a > matter of letting the extras maintainer know about the plan, importing > the package to core, bumping the release so that it updates the extras > one, 'cvs rm'ing the devel branch of the package from extras CVS, and > finally requesting removal from the extras devel repository, currently: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/FC5Status > > > Also, how will this work wrt maintainership of the package? I'm fine > > with owning this package inside redhat, but I don't want to steal it > > from the current extras maintainer (cc:ed). > > Usually that question reduces to figuring out whether the new core > maintainer of the package wishes to maintain the extras packages too or > not. That can be decided between the core/extras maintainers however > they see fit. I have now build libdaemon in Fedora Core. How do we move on from here? I don't actually have an extras account right now. (CC:in the right extras maintainer (i hope) this time). =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Alexander Larsson Red Hat, Inc alexl@xxxxxxxxxx alla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx He's a scarfaced soccer-playing filmmaker for the 21st century. She's a tortured kleptomaniac schoolgirl living on borrowed time. They fight crime!
