On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 09:22 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > > Unless it somehow interferes with the standard python package, be it > > 2.5, 2.6, or whatever, I don't expect much. I'd love to get a recap of > > that in about six months or so. Out of the twelve bugs for python in > > FC6, eight were dups, not a bug, or rawhide. The four actual bugs that > > are still open were probably kicked upstream, and remain open eight or > > nine months later. > > > "This is the last planned release in the Python 2.4 series - future > maintenance releases of Python will be in the 2.5 series, starting of > course with 2.5.1." > http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.4.4/ > > "If you really want to maintain a retired package, then the process is > much the same as claiming an orphaned package. However, you need to be > aware that fixing release critical bugs etc becomes your responsibility. > This is to ensure the high quality and standards of packaging remain for > Fedora package collection." > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/OrphanedPackages > > So things like those four bugs kicked upstream become the responsibility > of our compat-python2.4 maintainer. Similarly, if any of the fixed > rawhide bugs needed to be fixed for python2.4 as well, they would be the > responsibility of our compat-python2.4 maintainer. So being the > compat-python2.4 maintainer is a non-trivial job. It might even be > easier to be the zope/plone maintainer and drive the port to python2.5 :-) No offense, but it seems that you have set the standards for the compat maintainer far higher than Fedora or the python authors are willing to meet. It seems to be a disingenuous method of denying compat packages while claiming that Fedora hasn't done so. Dave -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
