Soon to be marked dead packages

Michael Schwendt bugs.michael at gmx.net
Sat Oct 7 01:06:18 UTC 2006


On Fri, 6 Oct 2006 19:21:40 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:

> On Friday 06 October 2006 19:07, Christian Iseli wrote:
> > dogtail
> > pyspi
> 
> These two moved from Extras to Core a while ago, and were requested to get 
> removed on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/FC6Status .  Those are not 
> listed there anymore  so one would think they got removed,

That page is about removing rpms from the repository, not about removing
stuff from CVS. In CVS, the ex-maintainer should have 'cvs -f remove'd
the files and should have created a "dead.package" file.

> so why are they 
> showing up in needrebuild orphaned list?

Most likely, because they are still active in CVS "devel" plus flagged
with a "needs.rebuild" file.




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