>> Looking through the orphaned package list there looks to be quite a >> list of dead packages there as well. What is the process for marking >> them dead in the pgkdb or do they just hang around as orphaned in case >> someone wants to revive them. The gstreamer08 ones are some that come >> to mind. I know I have ownership of a package as well that is dead >> (replaced by other packages) and has gone through the dead package >> process, is there a process for the pkgdb part of that? >> > There will be but there isn't yet. I'm testing and working out bugs in > a large packagedb update now. It has support for retiring packages. > We'll probably have to write some new supporting scripts to go along > with that (to push retired package information from packagedb into koji, > maybe to do the dead.package stuff from the packagedb rather than > manually by the maintainer, etc). Looking at pkgdb it might be useful for the package owner to be able to put a note against the package that is displayed in the package info page. Peter -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
