galeon orphaned (was Re: downgrading mozilla)

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 15:56 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > There's no safe way of downgrading AFAIK.  apt-get can do it
> > (freshrpms have apt-enabled Extras repositories):
> > 
> > apt-get install mozilla=<version-goes-here>
> > 
> > But yum doesn't AFAIK.
> > 
> > However it appears that Dams has now dropped galeon support for Fedora
> > Extras, see:
> > 
> > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/164344
> > 
> > So unless somebody picks up maintainership, it looks like there will
> > be no more galeon in FE :-(
> > 
> > Any takers?  If nobody steps up I might try and negotiate my way
> > through the thicket of Fedora Extras paperwork/setup and become a
> > contributor.
> > 
> 
> I'm not taking over galeon but I did change the spec file in such a way
> that it should be able to get through the buildsys.
> 

oh and one more thing -  looking at galeon's devel mailing list and
release process - is galeon devel dead? Did it get abandoned upstream?

if so then maintaining it in fedora extras is going to be a bear.

-sv