Deprecated packages

[Colin Charles]

On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 10:26 +0200, Aurelien Bompard wrote:

> What should we do with packages of closed projects ? For example, elmo (a
> text-based mail client) fails to build on PPC today, and the project is
> closed since January (http://elmo.sf.net).

It builds on PPC just fine; verified yesterday

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=156491

Please request a build, thanks

> Maybe this build failure can be fixed this time, but how should we
> depreciate packages in general ? Is there some flag to add, some list where
> it should be appended, or should we just remove the directory from CVS ?

Well, if you're still interested in maintaining it, you now become the
default maintainer for the software in Fedora world. Same thing happens
with Debian... If you're however not interested in maintaining it,
mention that its become an orphan, and is dead upstream and see if
someone else wants to take over it

But how we should deprecate packages in general is a good thing to
discuss...
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Colin Charles, http://www.bytebot.net/