>>>>> "Ralf" == Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: Ralf> On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 07:05 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >> Am Mittwoch, den 01.03.2006, 10:37 -0700 schrieb Kevin Fenzi: >> > I personally would suggest: >> > >> > d) remove all of them that aren't required by other packages. Ralf> ACK. >> > and then all the remaining ones that are required by other >> packages > should be taken over by those people who's packages need >> them. Ralf> I don't agree on this part - I find this to be rude to those Ralf> maintainers requiring/depending on these packages. Ralf> [Consider the perl packages, if one of those perl maintainers Ralf> (who often maintain many packages, eg. JPO, Ville, Spot, Steve Ralf> P. or me, would quit, this would push the others into a crisis.] How interdependent are they? I thought most of them were pretty stand alone? Ralf> Instead, I'd propose to add a new category, meaning Ralf> "non-assigned, open to those maintainers needing it, but not Ralf> dead". This would allow those maintainers who are depending on Ralf> such packages to modify/update them without committing Ralf> themselves to permanent maintainership. Yes, but who would handle bug reports on those packages? No one? >From a quick look at the current orphans we have 3 packages that need other maintained extras packages for buildrequires: (that I can see): - lua - needed by fillets-ng - ots - needed by abiword - python-numeric - needed by pygsl For runtime requires we have: - python-numeric has a pile of dependent packages: python-matplotlib-0:0.87-1.fc5.i386 fonttools-0:2.0-0.4.20050624cvs.fc5.i386 python-matplotlib-0:0.86-1.fc5.i386 pygtk2-0:2.8.4-1.1.i386 rpy-0:0.4.6-6.fc5.i386 fonttools-0:2.0-0.5.20050624cvs.fc5.i386 gnome-sudoku-0:0.4.0-5.fc5.noarch pygsl-0:0.3.2-4.fc5.i386 pygsl-0:0.3.2-5.fc5.i386 rpy-0:0.4.6-7.fc5.i386 Any takers for those so we don't have to decide how to deal with orphan packages that have dependencies? :) >> But I got the impression that some people thinks it's to late to >> remove the orphan packages. But if others agree with this idea I'm >> fine with it. Opinions please! Ralf> I go with Kevin. Remove all unused orphans from the repo. Ralf> Whether and how to keep them in CVS would be another topic. agreed. Ralf> Ralf kevin
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