Bunch of perl-* packages and uqm* orphaned

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Mon Mar 27 06:31:59 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 16:29 -0600, Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 04:25:15PM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 01:46:25PM +0300, Ville Skytt? wrote:
> > > I've marked a bunch of perl-* packages that I no longer use as well as
> > > uqm* [1] as orphaned/potentially orphaned.  If someone's interested,
> > > don't let the "potentially orphaned" status prevent you from just going
> > > ahead and grabbing it.  A few more packages will probably follow soon.
> > > 
> > > Full list of the above packages:
> > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/OrphanedPackages?action=diff&rev1=240&rev2=241
> > 
> > 
> > perl-MIME-tools provides perl(MIME::Entity), which pgp-tools needs.
> > So I guess I better pick that one up.
> 
> Actually, looking closer, perl-MIME-tools is needed by a lot of
> packages, and Ville just orphaned several of *its* dependencies too.
> I hadn't really wanted to pick them all up.  So let me un-volunteer,
> unless no one steps up. :-)

I'll volunteer to take:

perl-Convert-BinHex
perl-IO-stringy
perl-MailTools
perl-MIME-tools

I keep track of these for my own local repo, so it shouldn't be too
onerous.

Paul.




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