On Tue, 2014-01-14 at 20:37 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 11:03:30 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > The process here is > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_remove_a_package_at_end_of_life . > > What I am basically asking is whether one needs to adopt an orphaned > > package in order to put it through that process, or whether it is OK for > > any packager to file a retirement request on a package that is clearly > > an appropriate candidate for requirement. But I phrased it more > > generally in case this is a 'known situation' with other wrinkles to it. > > Since it's "Orphaned" in pkgdb and not "Deprecated" (= retired) yet, > it's needs at least somebody with permission to retire it in pkgdb. > Somebody from releng usually can do that, too. > > Similarly for dist git. It needs commit access (e.g. co-maintainer > itamarjp) or a provenpackager or somebody from releng to retire it in dist > git (the "fedpkg retire …" step that would also retire in pkgdb nowadays). > > Becoming the owner of the package prior to filing a "koji block request in > the releng" tracker is not necessary. Several packagers have done that > before, not only provenpackagers (who sometimes complete missings steps of > the package EOL procedure for retired packages). I'm a provenpackager, I have all the necessary powers, but I didn't know whether it was acceptable per policy for a provenpackager to retire a package they do not own. > Of course it can happen that releng will ask for the background before > blocking a package actually. "obexftp replacing obexfs because of an > upstream merge" should be mentioned to them. Part of the story also > seems to be bug 1014177 which sounds as if obexfs would not built with > current openobex anymore and would need to be ported first (likely the > reason it has been merged into obexftp upstream). It builds fine from obexftp 0.24. The files are already in the updated obexftp I built the other day. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
