Re: Orphaned packages looking for new maintainers

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On Wed, 2022-12-21 at 12:08 +0000, Sérgio Basto wrote:
> On Mon, 2022-12-19 at 19:45 +0000, Smith, Stewart via devel wrote:
> > 
> > > On Dec 19, 2022, at 7:43 AM, Miro Hrončok <mhroncok@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > wrote:
> > > 
> > > The following packages are orphaned and will be retired when they
> > > are orphaned for six weeks, unless someone adopts them. If you
> > > know
> > > for sure
> > > that the package should be retired, please do so now with a
> > > proper
> > > reason:
> > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_remove_a_package_at_end_of_life
> > > 
> > > Note: If you received this mail directly you (co)maintain one of
> > > the affected
> > > packages or a package that depends on one. Please adopt the
> > > affected package or
> > > retire your depending package to avoid broken dependencies,
> > > otherwise your
> > > package will fail to install and/or build when the affected
> > > package
> > > gets retired.
> > > 
> > > Request package ownership via the *Take* button in he left column
> > > on
> > > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/<pkgname>
> > 
> > I took a bunch that we still ship in some Amazon Linux version, and
> > may end up going through the package retirement process for some of
> > them in Fedora, as some of these are probably a few years beyond
> > any
> > upstream activity.
> > 
> > biosdevname
> > fros
> > gconf-editor
> > gtkhtml3
> > libbonobo
> > libbonoboui
> > libcmpiutil
> > libgnome
> > libmodman
> > liboil
> > libvirt-cim
> > libvirt-java
> > maven-scm
> > openjpeg
> 
> Note that we are not orphan all openjpeg , because we have openjpeg2
> . 
> we are orphan only openjpeg1 .
> 
> Looking for dependencies on openjepg1, now we only have one
> dependency
> [1] but only on BuildRequires which may mean that BuildRequires can
> be
> unneeded and dropped.

Confirmed megaglest does not need  openjepg1 , and no dependencies on
openjepg1 left . 

> In resume, two thoughts , one, is maybe we should move openjpeg2 to
> openjpeg , is more than time and avoid confusions .

I think we should rename openjpeg2 with openjpeg


> Other though is, I realize that we can use find_unblocked_orphans.py
> [2] to detect unneeded BuildRequires and start dropping it,
> particularly on old software . 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> [2] 
> https://pagure.io/releng/blob/main/f/scripts/find_unblocked_orphans.py
> 
> 
> [1] 
> Depending on: openjpeg (1), status change: 2022-11-28 (3 weeks ago)
> megaglest (maintained by: andymenderunix)
> megaglest-3.13.0-14.fc38.src requires openjpeg-devel = 1.5.1-33.fc37
> 
> > python-cov-core
> > system-storage-manager
> > tboot

-- 
Sérgio M. B.
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