Shorewall removed from Fedora Extras

[Robert Marcano]

On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 12:39 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> The Fedora Extras Steering Committee has agreed on taking action in
> respect of orphaned packages.
> 
> Effectively today, after having been without a maintainer for a long time,
> the "shorewall" packages (for the http://www.shorewall.net software), a relict
> from the fedora.us era, have been removed from the Fedora Extras repository
> and disabled within CVS.
> 
> Other packages, which may suffer from the same fate, are tracked here:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/OrphanedPackages
> 
> Shorewall may be brought back to Fedora Extras by an interested
> contributor any time, provided that the packages are updated to the series
> which is still supported by the upstream project. The 1.4 series of
> Shorewall has reached end-of-life.
> 

I think it is good decision. I have a 2.0 branch based RPM that I can
contribute, let me see if it complies with the Fedora guidelines and if
no one wants to be a mantainer I can volunteer to do that because I
already do that for 5 different servers

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