* Patrice Dumas <pertusus@xxxxxxx> [2008-01-11 18:01]: > On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 05:12:02PM -0500, Deepak Bhole wrote: > > Hi There, > > > > I'm working on updating maven2 in Fedora, and one of the dependencies > > that it is cascading into is Jakarta Slide. This project hasn't had > > updates for a while, and is now officially dead as stated on the main > > page: > > > > http://jakarta.apache.org/slide/index.html > > > > What is Fedora policy for introducing new packages for defunct projects? > > Specially when those packages provide optional functionality... > > It depends on the reason why it is defunct. If it is because it works > since a long time, such that nobody needs to take care of it, then it is > a very good thing. If it is a package abandoned although it is not very > stable, then if a packager wants to keep it in fedora he'll have to be > prepared to be more or less the upstream. > > So this is left to the packager, but in the precise case you bring up, > I'd suggest retiring the package > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/RetiredPackages > especially since there is a replacement. And indeed stop using that > functionality. If not, then be prepared to do the patching yourself. > Actually in this case, there is nothing to retire because the package doesn't exist in Fedora. That it why I was wondering on our stance on putting a new package in, for a known defunct project... It seems such a decision would lie on a packager as well though, so I am going to just avoid putting it in and work around the dependency requirement. Cheers, Deepak > -- > Pat > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
