On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 5:04 PM, Julien Enselme <jujens@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I discovered this morning that a package I co-maintain was retired > (ccnet [1]) because one of its dependency was retired (libzdb [2]). I > learned it only because we have an open bug on it that change assigner > because of this fact. I'll call this notification thanks to luck. > > Is there a way to be notified as soon as a dependency is orphaned so > the (co-)maintainer can take action as soon as possible? > > I think the usual way is to send a notification message to devel but it > relies on sending/reading the mail (I personally forgot ccnet relied on > libzdb). In this case, I can't find one. But I may have missed it. > > Could this simply be because I am only a watcher and committer (neither > POC nor admin) of this package or should we find a way to improve this? Keep watching devel list for "Orphaned Packages in <branch>" emails. The latest one[1] shows that libzdb is in orphaned state since last 15 weeks. Regards, Parag. [1] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/thread/UKET6ZEQY2YPLZ2XZUGRGGQBYV73YLXL/ _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
