On Sat, 2013-03-09 at 08:36 -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 6:48 AM, Dan Mashal <dan.mashal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Thanks Kevin for starting this discussion. > > > > Please remove isdn4k completely from comps and retire/block it from Fedora > > 19. The maintainer is unresponsive, the service fails on boot, has scriptlet > > errors on yum update, and quite frankly if anyone is still using ISDN in > > 2013 I feel sorry for them. > > A quick look at Wikipedia confirms that it's still in use in India, > Japan, and fairly extensively in Europe. It's being phased out > everywhere, but it reaches places that ADSL still does not, and it's > higher bandwidth than consistent latentcies are valuable for some > remote audio applications. So you may feel sorry for them, but it's > going to be around a while longer. Even though I do not have an ISDN connection anymore, my ADSL/VDSL modem still uses ISDN Capi over IP for internal usage. And my ffgtk package uses that for sending faxes etc. I have found the maintainer to be somewhat slow in responding but the bugs I submitted have been solved. I definitely object to retiring/blocking it. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
