FE Package Status of Jul 5, 2006

Michael Schwendt bugs.michael at gmx.net
Thu Jul 6 12:32:15 UTC 2006


On Thu, 06 Jul 2006 13:00:30 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:

> Christian.Iseli at licr.xxx schrieb:
> > rdieter at math.unl.xxx said:
> >>   What extra "news" is required? 
> > Go into the CVS devel directory, "cvs remove" all the files, create a 
> > dead.package file and "cvs add" it ...
> > 
> > That's the standard procedure for retired packages...
> 
> Yeah, but that "standard procedure" is not documented probably in the
> wiki. Could somebody please do that? tia!

Could you please discuss this at FESCO-level, find out whether the CVS
branch script recognises the "dead.package" file. Then it could become
the official procedure. Else all dead packages would be branched for FC-6.




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