Michael Schwendt schrieb: > On Thu, 06 Jul 2006 13:00:30 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > >> Christian.Iseli@xxxxxxxx schrieb: >>> rdieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx said: >>>> What extra "news" is required? >>> Go into the CVS devel directory, "cvs remove" all the files, create a >>> dead.package file and "cvs add" it ... >>> That's the standard procedure for retired packages... >> Yeah, but that "standard procedure" is not documented probably in the >> wiki. Could somebody please do that? tia! > Could you please discuss this at FESCO-level, find out whether the CVS > branch script recognises the "dead.package" file. Then it could become > the official procedure. Else all dead packages would be branched for FC-6. Well, is was discussed in FESCo months ago. From http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SteeringCommittee/Meeting-20060323 19:41 < thl> | something else regarding cvs: 19:42 < thl> | we created FC5 branches in CVS for a lot of old packages that are orpahend or obsoleted 19:42 < thl> | should they be deleted? 19:42 < thl> | and the devel branch too? 19:43 < thl> | jeremy, can the devel branch readded easily? 19:44 < jeremy> | thl: probably. and rather than delete the devel branch, possibly just a DEAD_PACKAGE marker 19:44 < jeremy> | the problem with deleting it is that we lose history if it needs to come back 19:44 < thl> | jeremy, k, sounds sane 19:44 < thl> | jeremy, how could a DEAD_PACKAGE marker look like? 19:45 < thl> | jeremy, just a file "dead.package"? 19:45 < thl> | with a short explanation why it's dead in it? 19:45 < jeremy> | works for me :-) 19:45 < thl> | jeremy, the branch script would need to take care that no new branched are created later 19:45 < thl> | but that's probably easy 19:46 < jeremy> | well, allowing an older branch to be made is fine. but not creating it when doing mass-branching is good 19:46 < thl> | jeremy, exactly 19:46 < thl> | k, that was all from my side 19:46 < jeremy> | and the mass-branching is just a giant "for i in ..." script 19:46 < jeremy> | if you get me a list of FC-5 branches which need to be killed, I can do that 19:47 <-- | dgregor has quit (Read error: 110 (Connection timed out)) 19:47 < thl> | jeremy, k, will try to find someone for that task ;-) For me that discussion is enough (especially as the dead.package marker is used already) even if there was no "formal" decision /"voting" on it. Michael, or is there anything else that you'd like to see discussed? Then I'll put it on the schedule. CU thl -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
