On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 16:45 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Bill Nottingham (notting@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > I'd like to retire kudzu for F-13. > > > > Why? > > - There are places where it almost certainly does not work with current kernels > > - It's so deprecated that one of its replacements (HAL) has since been > > frozen and deprecated > > - Given that, its upstream is very dead > > > > However, it is still being required by two programs: > > - hwbrowser > > - fwfstab > > > > If someone wants to keep it limping along for thsese two programs I can > > orphan it. But I'd really rather just retire it. > > I just noticed I hadn't actually done this yet. I've retired it for > F-14/rawhide; it can remain in F-13, although it's unlikely to see any > useful updates there. I've retired hwbrowser in Rawhide/F-13 as well, it doesn't make sense to keep it around as it can't handle much of the the new hardware, i.e. anything kudzu doesn't know. Nils -- Nils Philippsen "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase Red Hat a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nils@xxxxxxxxxx nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 PGP fingerprint: C4A8 9474 5C4C ADE3 2B8F 656D 47D8 9B65 6951 3011 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
