On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 18:34 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: > Why is gnome-scan-0.6.2-7.fc15 offered in Fedora 16 when it has been > retired months ago and is affected by serious crashers? The reports in > bugzilla are without a reply from the assignee: > > http://bugz.fedoraproject.org/gnome-scan > > Has it been retired without requesting rel-eng to block it from the > repos? > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_remove_a_package_at_end_of_life > > While trying to make a scanner work I discovered this in the repo, > but it froze early while xsane works. > > | [pkgdb] gnome-scan (un)retirement > | Fedora PackageDB pkgdb at fedoraproject.org > | Tue Aug 30 16:18:36 UTC 2011 > | > | Package gnome-scan in Fedora 16 has been retired by deji > > > | URL : http://home.gna.org/gnomescan/ > > 404 not found > > Google search finds > > http://projects.gnome.org/gnome-scan/index > -> http://gna.org/projects/gnomescan/ > > but it looks out-of-date/inactive. On a side note, you might want to try Simple Scan (simple-scan). xsane is more capable but its interface is hideous. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
