Hi Rich, On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 05:26:02PM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 17:46:45 +0000, >> Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > freetennis-0.4.8-18.fc12 >> >> Note that freetennis is waiting on a review of ocaml-calimages. I have tested >> rebuilding freetennis against my local copy of ocaml-calimages and it >> worked. >> >> I have traded some package maintenance tasks with Hans for getting a review >> of ocaml-calimages and it will probably be done in a couple of weeks. > > ocaml-camlimages? I've kicked this package out of Fedora because > camlimages has a dead upstream *and* a lengthy history of security > bugs. It contains old C code pasted from various places, and really > shouldn't be used. The right way to do this is to use OCaml bindings > for libpng, libungif etc. (Debian even did some of this work, but > didn't contribute anything back upstream ...) > > See my previous posting on this subject: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2009-October/039597.html > > Freetennis has a long, long dead upstream (like 5+ years), and I was > fairly certain that I had made it 'dead.package' in the past too, but > checking it now, I didn't. I suggest killing it too. Please follow the process to remove a package to ensure it's properly blocked. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_remove_a_package_at_end_of_life Thanks, Peter -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
