Bunch of newly orphaned packages up for grabs

[Jose' Matos]

On Monday 30 January 2006 20:59, Quentin Spencer wrote:
> OK, sorry about the delay in responding. The new 3.1 release of fftw is
> out now, and I have checked the necessary changes for the fftw3 package
> into CVS, but I'm going to wait on requesting a build until we reach a
> final decision on this change. So, here's my proposal: we change both
> FC-4 and FC-5 branches, you take over the 2.x branch under whatever name
> you want (I assume you'll call it fftw2, but it also occured to me that
> we could call it compat-fftw2 or something like that--you're the
> maintainer so you can decide).

  I will choose fftw2 since in a sense it is a different library. Also usually 
we don't have devel packages for compat packages, this is a requirement now, 
so..

> I will take over fftw and update it to 
> the new 3.1 release, and the fftw3 name will be abandoned. If you agree
> with this, go ahead and create the 2.x package and notify me when it's
> done. I will make the necessary changes to fftw and I will notify the
> maintainers of packages that depend on fftw3 (mostly me). The fftw and
> fftw3 spec files are mostly the same, but the fftw3 spec has a few
> details that could be helpful in creating a package whose name differs
> from the upstream name.

  The other option is for you to take control of fftw version 2, I will not 
object. :-)

  Notice that I am not refusing the maintenance of fftw. :-)

  So whatever is the path taken we should proceed. :-)

  If you decline the maintenance of version 2 as soon as you answer I will 
change the ownership of fftw, now rename fftw2, to me.

  I will import the last srpm to extras and I will require the creation of 
branch FC4 and the removal of fftw3 from development and FC4.

  Does this sounds like a plan? :-)

> -Quentin

-- 
José Abílio