Re: Orphaned packages looking for new maintainers

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On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 01:25:19PM +0100, Dan Čermák wrote:
> "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 09:09:26AM -0800, Jerry James wrote:
> >> Pardon the top posting. I am on the road with only my phone, no Fedora
> >> devices anywhere. I have been thinking about trying to get Facebook's Infer
> >> tool into Fedora. Several of its dependencies are on this list, but I won't
> >> be able to take them until I get home, after they are retired.  The ocaml
> >> packages, at least, have some serious dependency issues, as I recall, but I
> >> would like to see if they can be fixed.  Can someone please assign the
> >> following packages to me?  After I return I will fix them if I can & retire
> >> them if I cannot.
> >> 
> >> jackson
> >
> > For these packages:
> >
> >> ocaml-bin-prot
> >> ocaml-deriving
> >> ocaml-sexplib
> >
> > I orphaned them because the upstream versions we were using depended
> > on camlp4.  There are newer upstream versions but they had quite
> > different requirements (being basically rewritten in at least the case
> > of Deriving).
> >
> > Anyway in the meantime all 3 packages were taken by Dan Čermák
> > (https://src.fedoraproject.org/user/defolos/projects).
> 
> That is correct, however I will probably orphan ocaml-deriving and
> ocaml-sexplib very soon because we only need ocaml-bin-prot for infer
> and I have no need for the other two packages.
> 
> However, ocaml-bin-prot was also rewritten and went through 2 versioning
> changes in the meantime resulting in the current latest version being
> smaller than the current version in Fedora. This will probably cause all
> kinds of funny problems if I try to submit an update with a smaller
> NEVRA :(

Welcome to the world of Epoch: headers :-/

Rich.

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