Re: Testing of F32 Workstation-Live x86-64 RC1.4

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On Tue, 2020-04-21 at 14:13 -0400, pmkellly@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> On 4/21/20 13:25, Adam Williamson wrote:
> 
> 
> > > 	stardict-dic-en
> > > 	stardict-dic-ja
> > 
> > These were both retired as they were unmaintained. You can always check
> > this in dist-git:
> > 
> > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/stardict-dic-ja
> > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/stardict-dic-en
> > 
> > generally, the URL is src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/(srcpackgename)
> > 
> I would be curious to know what the criteria are for classing something 
> as unmaintained. I believe these are just data file used by the stardict 
> dictionary application. I see that stardict along with the dictionary 
> data files stardict-dic-cs_CZ (Czech) and stardict-dic-hi (Hindi) are 
> present in the repo. I would not expect that a dictionary data file 
> would need periodic maintenance. It seems like unmaintained is just an 
> arbirtary time limit since the last file was presented.

orphaning a package is an action a packager must take actively, it more
or less is a declaration "I do not want to maintain this package any
more, please someone else take it". After that there is a grace period
during which another maintainer can take the package, but if no-one
does for several weeks, it gets auto-retired.
-- 
Adam Williamson
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