Soon to be marked dead packages

[Hans de Goede]

Dave Jones wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 01:07:37AM +0200, Christian Iseli wrote:
>  > Hi folks,
>  > 
>  > The following list of packages will soon (tomorrow-ish) be marked dead
>  > in CVS (to avoid them being branched for FC-6 with no maintainer).
> 
> Are these actually broken in FC6 ?
> If they still compile, perhaps we can automate building some of them
> until a maintainer steps up ?
> I think magicpoint is the only thing I'd be sad to see go, but I have
> nowhere near the time to maintain it.
> 

I've taken a look at unorphaning it, not because I use it, but I like
the magicpoint concept and I thought it would be nice to help out the
Fedora kernel maintainer. And as we all know only the sun shines for
free, so I was of course also hoping for a favorable treatment of kernel
bugs reported by me ;)

Unfortunately it requires freetype1 which is is currently stuck in review:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=198836

I'm currently rather busy myself. When I find some more spare time I'll
take a look at first helping the freetype1 review and when thats done
unorphaning magicpoint.

In the mean time a kind request if anyone else wants to work on this,
please keep me posted, I hate doing double work.

Regards,

Hans