orphaning all my packages

Steven M. Parrish smparrish at shallowcreek.net
Wed Dec 17 00:25:26 UTC 2008


On Tuesday 16 December 2008 04:47:40 Patrice Dumas wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am orphaning all my packages. I orphan the devel branch, but I'd
> prefer
> also orphan the stable branches too, so if you are interested don't
> hesitate to ask. I am still willing to maintain the EPEL branches, but
> here, also, if you want to take over, say so.
>
> I am nco, ncview, glib 1 and gtk+ 1 de-facto main packager, so
> somebody else should take care of those packages.
>
> I think that lesstif, perl-File-MimeInfo and fcron are strategic for
> fedora.
>
>
> Low maintainance but very complicated packages:
> The cernlib packages are quite complicated and unusual, this is fortran,
> uses imake :-/ and upstream is moribund since 2003, and dead since 2006.
> Debian was like a substitution upstream, but the debian maintainer has
> also abandonned cernlib. Still it is known that there are users for this
> package.
> * cernlib
> * cernlib-g77
>
> Normal packages:
> * lesstif
> * libdap
> * libnc-dap
>
> Very low maintainance packages:
> * asa
> * bibexport
> * BibTool
> * bitmap
> * libsx
> * libdockapp
> * ooo2txt
> * perl-Parse-Yapp
> * perl-Text-Unidecode
> * tetex-elsevier
> * uread
> * wmix
> * xbae
> * xdialog
>
> Low maintainance packages:
> * acpitool
> * boolstuff
> * cppunit
> * esmtp
> * fcron
> * halevt
> * grads
> there is an update available for grads, but it has some functionalities
> removed, and also upstream is complicated, with a friendly fork at
> opengrads and last libgadap can be packaged now. I'll still be working
> with upstream, so I could help with chosing which version to package and
> things like that.
> * perl-Algorithm-CurveFit
> * perl-File-BaseDir
> * perl-File-DesktopEntry
> * perl-File-MimeInfo
> * perl-Math-MatrixReal
> * perl-Math-Symbolic
>
> Recently added packages:
> * g2clib
> * grib_api
> * w3lib
>
> --
> Pat
 
I'll also take esmtp, and acpi    devel F9 & F10

Steven




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