On Thu, 06 Mar 2014 11:31:18 +0100 Michael J Gruber <mjg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I just git a "broken dependencies" notice for a package that I maintain. > The reason is that "pdftk" got retired just the other day. > > I may have missed a corresponding post on fedora-devel, but I think a > heads up notice to maintainers of depending packages may be in order > before you retire a package, as a general idea. > > You see, unretiring a package is so much more work than changing > maintainership. > > As for pdftk: I see 2 failed builds for version 1.45 and none for the > current version 2.02 (which probably breaks the api anyways). What are > the plans? Retire pdftk completely? Start fresh with pdftk2? > > pdflabs, the maker of pdftk, provide binary as well as source rpms for > pdftk 2.02, by the way. I might even look into packaging it but don't > want to duplicate any existing efforts. > > Michael +1 pdftk is a very important package, so new (co)maintainers shouldn't be hard to find. -- Susi Lehtola Fedora Project Contributor jussilehtola@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
