Re: [ACTION REQUIRED] Packages depending on retired packages

[Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Till Maas <opensource@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 06:06:16PM +0200, Nicolas Chauvet wrote:
> 2013/8/29 Till Maas <opensource@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> > On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 10:53:53PM +0200, Till Maas wrote:
> >
> > >       Package                            (co)maintainers
> > >
> > ===========================================================================
> > > directfb               orphan, kwizart
> >
> > > tslib                  orphan
> >
> > These seem to be retired by accident:
> > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-June/183702.html
> >
> > Nicolas, can you please comment on this?
> >
> Yep I've retired this package. At that time the directfb project was more
> and more relying on an external kernel module to be full featured. I've
> probably missed to block this package at that time.

Directfb is now blocked in f20+ and dead.packaged in GIT. xine-lib
maintainer need to rebuild without directfb support, which is already
the default for arm.

There's been discussion over the last few releases of moving xine out of the mainline Fedora release to rpmfusion but I'm not sure what happened with that.

Peter

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