On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 06:39:46PM +0100, Till Maas wrote: > On Tue November 25 2008, Denis Leroy wrote: > > > Although I agree with Patrice, it seems more natural to orphan it and > > let Darwin's law do its job... > > But who will after which timeframe retire the package? The current best > practices are to retire packages that are considered not to be useful anymore > to make this obvious for other interested maintainers. E.g. then the > package's devel CVS directory will contain a dead.package file that explains > why it is not useful anymore. If a package is only orphaned, then this means, > that there is currently nobody available that want's to maintain the package, > but the package would still be useful. A package should only be retired if it is orphaned. For example, in that case, if nobody answers within a reasonable time frame (2 weeks?), it could be retired in addition to being orphaned, and obsoleted by nautilus. -- Pat -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
