Fedora Package Status of Aug 12, 2008 [gnome-ppp]

[Toshio Kuratomi]

Christoph Wickert wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 12.08.2008, 09:48 +0300 schrieb Ville Skyttä:
>> On Tuesday 12 August 2008, Christoph Wickert wrote:
>>> Am Dienstag, den 12.08.2008, 01:35 +0200 schrieb Christian Iseli:
>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>
>>>> After a rather long delay, I have managed to update the PackageStatus
>>>> page again.  In the meantime, we had a new FAS, wiki, and bugzilla...
>>>>
>>>> There are probably many wrinkles, but for now that's the best I got.
>>> Seems like your script does not check for orphans properly. gnome-ppp is
>>> listed both as missing in the devel repo _AND_ orphaned:
>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/PackageStatus#Potential_pr
>>> oblems
>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/PackageStatus#Fedora_packa
>>> ges_dropped_between_release_9_and_devel
>> Is the package's status EOL?  If so, it has not been properly marked as such:
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/PackageEndOfLife
> 
> Not true. I followed all the steps in the list except 5. I did not do 5.
> because
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/OrphanedPackages says
> that page isn't up to date anyway and one should better use pkgedb.
> 
somewhat of a tangent -- being able to differentiate between orphaned 
and retired packages in the package database is coming soon.  maploin 
has been hard at work making the UI and the backend use the status field 
to mark orphan, retired, and other useful statuses.

-Toshio

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