Orphaning ruby-rpm

[David Lutterkort]

On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 09:56 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> David Lutterkort wrote:
> > I'd like to orphan ruby-rpm, the rpm bindings for ruby - it has been
> > broken for a very long time, ever since the move to RPM 4.6. And it's
> > abundantly clear that I simply don't have the time to fix it.
> > 
> > To get ruby-rpm working again, you need to do some upstream hacking to
> > adapt it to the RPM 4.6 API. Since I am also upstream, ownership of the
> > ruby-rpm package will come with commit rights upstream ;)
> > 
> Is this broken enough that we should block it from F-11 final if no one
> steps forward to fix it?  It seems like pushing a broken binding to the
> release won't accomplish much except confusion and it can always be
> brought back after a new upstream maintainer starts fixing things.

Yeah, in its current state (FTBFS) it needs to be blocked.

David