Re: Orphaned packages looking for new maintainers (see note about xinetd)

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Michael J Gruber wrote:
>> ===== NOTE about xinetd =====
>> 
>> Many packagers are listed as affected by xinetd. The dependency chain is:
>> 
>> 	cvs (kasal, ppisar)
>> 		cvs-inetd.noarch requires xinetd
>> 
>> 	git (amahdal, besser82, chrisw, pcahyna, pstodulk, skisela, tmz)
>> 		git.src requires cvs
>> 		git-cvs.noarch requires cvs
>> 
>> 	<everything else> ( <everybody else>)
>> 		<package> requires git
>> 
>> Note that if xinetd indeed goes away, your package will most likely not be 
>> affected, unless you actually need git-cvs.
>> 
>> ===== end NOTE =====
> 
> Also, git requires only the client functionality, not cvs-inetd itself. So it would be good to get input from the former xinetd maintainer whether
> - xinetd should be retired fro some reason (and cvs should retire the cvs-inetd subpackage)
> - or xinetd should simply be picked up.
> 
> Thanks for the clear info about the dependency, btw. It would have been easy to miss otherwise.

Indeed, thanks Miro and Michael!

_If_ it comes to it, the git package has a conditional for
building without CVS.  It's trivial to change the default
for f34+ and avoid the cvs dep.

It seems likely that cvs can drop the inetd subpackage
without much trouble though, so it shouldn't come to that.

-- 
Todd

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