On 03/06/2014 12:03 PM, Susi Lehtola wrote: > 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. > +++1 Joachim Backes -- Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug) Kernel-3.13.5-202.fc20.x86_64 Joachim Backes <joachim.backes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> https://www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes/de-index.html https://www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes/en-index.html -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
