Re: [ACTION REQUIRED] Retiring packages for F-17

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On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 18:39:48 +0100
Michael J Gruber <michaeljgruber+gmane@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

...snip...

(Please trim you emails...)

> Took bibexport.
> 
> mathmap seems to be dead upstream as a Gimp plugin, unfortunately.
> (It's supposed to be turned into a web service...)
> 
> While it's a pitty to see it go away, pampering the "final" version in
> Fedora appears to be futile.
> 
> And yes, I feel quite uneasy about this mass removal, too. I mean, it
> affects even packages with comaintainers when the owner disappeared
> for whatever reasons.

In this case the co-maintainers should have been seeing bounce emails
for any commit against the package from the missing maintainer. They
also should see that it's orphaned in the above list and should
consider one of them taking over ownership. 

> Unless I'm using a package already, I'd have to check what it does,
> what state it is in etc. before taking ownership - but it's gone by
> that time already, requiring much more "paperwork" to take over.

well, we still have a good deal of time before any of the packages on
this list are retired. 

kevin

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