'straw' package appears to be orphaned

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Hi!

Peter Williams schrieb:
> As per https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=186731, the
> Fedora Extras package of the Straw news reader is extremely old. The
> maintainer, Colin Charles has seemed nonresponsive for about five months,
> at least. I'm not sure what's going on since his blog is updated quite
> regularly.
> 
> I'm not familiar with the organization of Fedora Extras, but can this
> package be added the orphaned list? And, well, it would be cool if someone
> stepped up to maintain the package :-)

I pinged bytee in #fedora-extras on this, here's his response:

[07:54:09] <         thl> | bytee_, please read 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2006-August/msg00170.html
[09:18:44] <      bytee_> | thl: i will respond and fix that bug. sorry.
[09:19:04] <      bytee_> | thl: my main problem was that the package 
required an update. and the update breaks the old database. i havent 
figured out a nice way to deal with it
[09:19:32] <      bytee_> | thl: i'm thinking that breaking it in itself 
might be the best way. because the straw package itself doesn't offfer a 
conversion tool
[09:23:19] <         thl> | bytee_, thx
[09:23:31] <         thl> | bytee_, gaim-guifications needs a update, too
[09:23:37] <         thl> | bytee_, see 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2006-August/msg00166.html
[09:24:10] <      bytee_> | thl: i know that, i will do that next week.
[09:24:14] <      bytee_> | as does MagicPoint.
[09:24:26] <      bytee_> | thl: give me a week, i'm not home at the moment
[09:24:50] <      bytee_> | thl: do you mind responding to the post for 
me? its not convenient to do email atm
[09:26:58] <         thl> | bytee_, shall I simply cut'n'paste this 
conversation?
[09:27:05] <      bytee_> | thl: sure, if you want.
[09:27:17] <      bytee_> | thl: i'll update it all next week when back.

CU
thl