Orphaning packages
Conrad Meyer
cemeyer at u.washington.edu
Fri Oct 30 18:49:43 UTC 2009
On Friday 30 October 2009 09:01:39 am Mary Ellen Foster wrote:
> 2009/7/14 Conrad Meyer <cemeyer at u.washington.edu>:
> > I intend to orphan the JRuby package and some of the dependencies I don't
> > believe anything else uses. It's a piece of software upstream really
> > doesn't intend to be packaged, and bumping to new versions is a constant
> > struggle. Furthermore, I don't have anymore use for it. Here is the list
> > of packages I'll orphan sometime in the next week or so:
> >
> > - bytelist
> > - constantine
> > - jcodings
> > - jline
> > - jna-posix
> > - joni
> > - jvyamlb
>
> Hello! I'm sorry to come in three and a half months after the fact
> (does that mean that they'll all have to be re-reviewed? :( ), but
> jruby is a dependency of some Java stuff that I'm currently working on
> so I'd like to take over these packages.
>
> MEF
They're all orphaned in pkgdb. I'm not sure what process you'll need to go
through to take them over (at the least, you'll probably have to talk to rel-
eng to get the dead.package's removed).
Regards,
--
Conrad Meyer <cemeyer at u.washington.edu>
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