On Thu, 14 Jul 2011, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 12:39:13 > From: Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [ACTION REQUIRED] Retiring packages in F-16 (v3) > > Each release, before branching, we block currently orphaned packages. > It's that time again for Fedora 16. > > New this go-round is that we are also blocking packages that have > failed to build since before Fedora 14. > > The following packages are currently orphaned, or fail to build. If > you have a need for one of these packages, please pick them up. > > If not claimed, the packages will be blocked on Monday, July 25. > ... > Orphan ds9 > comaintained by: mmahut > Orphan wcstools > comaintained by: mmahut > Orphan xpa > Since astronomy is one of my main interests, to the point that I was even trying to package the nightmare that is ds9 (lots of built & included redundant libs) myself around 5 years ago, I'd be happy to take up that and wcstools. On the other hand, I'd need a sponsor, so if mmahut is willing, obviously it would make more sense for him to step up. I know nothing of xpa, except that ds9 requires it (I may have known a little about it 5 years ago, and then forgotten), but I'd be willing to take it if no one else does, to help keep ds9 afloat; it looks like it has a fairly simple spec file. But obviously, I don't have any special knowledge of it. As to why anyone should sponsor me, I don't have a lot I can point to. The main highlights would be my personal repository [1], which only goes back to FC9 now (my older packages got eaten by a disk), a little help focusing on ddclient & mipv6-daemon (not that those need much help), and a patch quite a while back to RPM itself, fixing some perl depency generation problems. I already know the build process about up to the point of doing scratch builds on koji, but might need a little bit of hand-holding-by-example beyond that; not for long, surely. [1] http://download.ghiapet.net/pub/ghiapet/linux/ -- J. Randall Owens | http://www.ghiapet.net/ ProofReading Markup Language | http://prml.sourceforge.net/ -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
