Request for help and opinions: Rebuilding and basic checking for orphans
Chris Ricker
kaboom at oobleck.net
Thu Mar 2 03:05:16 UTC 2006
On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Hi!
>
> we still have a lot of orphans in extras/development/ that will remain
> in FE5. For a list see
> http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/FC5Status
> and look out for packages owned by "extras-orphan_AT_fedoraproject.org"
>
> Well what do we want do with them?
> a) just leave them there
> b) check them and remove those that are broken and are not required by
> other programs
> c) rebuild the arch packages, check them afterwards and remove the
> broken ones
>
> I'd suggest c) for arch packages and b) for noarch packags. Objections?
> Anyone interested it helping there? I would suggest this scheme if the
> answer is "yes":
>
> - Add your name after some packages owned by
> extras-orphan_AT_fedoraproject.org on
> http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/FC5Status
I've just started rebuilding 2 of these orphans, gnugo and cgoban
If no one else wants them I'm willing to maintain them
later,
chris
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