Extras packages queued for removal after (non-)rebuild

[Orion Poplawski]

Ville Skyttä wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The deadline for the FE mass rebuild for FC6 was today, 153 packages
> which are still in the devel (package) repo have not had their
> needs.rebuild file treated in CVS.
> 
> Attachments:
> - not-treated.txt: the 153 packages above
> - not-treated-already-removed.txt: not treated, but already removed
> - not-treated-deps.txt: packages that have dependencies to the above or
>   subpackages of the above, but are not listed in the above
> 
> The not-treated-deps.txt list is informational -- it may contain false
> positives and lack some packages, and it does not take build
> dependencies into account.  Maintainers of packages listed in it may
> want to look into it anyway.
> 
> Cleanup of packages listed in not-treated.txt from the devel package
> repo will start today.  Changing their status to orphaned and removing
> them from comps will be done a bit later, and packages that have
> dependencies to those removed will be cleaned up incrementally in the
> next few days.  Package dirs in CVS will be taken care of later, but
> anyway I suppose before FC-6 is branched.

So, if I want to take over maintaining any of these, when can I do it? 
When they are officially orphaned?  Will this be done before being 
removed from comps (to avoid having to re-add them)?

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