On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 16:21 +0000, Andrew Haley wrote: > It says here: > > 1. > > Packages, which need a new maintainer (orphaned packages). A > package may need to be dropped from the distribution when it > contains security vulnerabilities, gets out-of-date too much > and/or becomes incompatible with build dependencies. > > And it seems to me that JOnAS and its dependencies fit into this > category, having been dropped mainly because of dbuild dependency > issues. I doubt very much that any of these packages can reasonably > be described as "new submissions" -- if build problems hadn't cropped > up they would have been in FC5. > Hmm... This looks like it may contradict the post that I quoted earlier from spot. I suspect this predates spot's post and should be removed or rephrased on the wiki. Do you want to jump in and clarify things, spot? > But on the other hand, they never made it into FC5. > > I don't mind, really, as long as the work involved in pushing these 30 > packages into extras isn't great. Depends on what the packages look like and who shows up to review. It's peer review on a package by package basis with the guidelines posted on the wiki as the basic requirements that need to be met. http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/ReviewGuidelines http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines -Toshio
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