Moving packages from extras to core

[Ville Skyttä]

On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 18:30 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:

> I can do the Core side of the work, in fact I have already updated the
> package to a more recent version and made a few changes to the specfile.
> The question is, how do we handle removing the version in extras, in
> favour of the core version? Has this been done before? 

Yes, one recent example off the top of my head would be icu.

Going from extras to core should be pretty straightforward; it's just a
matter of letting the extras maintainer know about the plan, importing
the package to core, bumping the release so that it updates the extras
one, 'cvs rm'ing the devel branch of the package from extras CVS, and
finally requesting removal from the extras devel repository, currently:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/FC5Status

> Also, how will this work wrt maintainership of the package? I'm fine
> with owning this package inside redhat, but I don't want to steal it
> from the current extras maintainer (cc:ed).

Usually that question reduces to figuring out whether the new core
maintainer of the package wishes to maintain the extras packages too or
not.  That can be decided between the core/extras maintainers however
they see fit.