Bunch of newly orphaned packages up for grabs

[Quentin Spencer]

Jose' Matos wrote:

>On Monday 30 January 2006 20:59, Quentin Spencer wrote:
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>>OK, sorry about the delay in responding. The new 3.1 release of fftw is
>>out now, and I have checked the necessary changes for the fftw3 package
>>into CVS, but I'm going to wait on requesting a build until we reach a
>>final decision on this change. So, here's my proposal: we change both
>>FC-4 and FC-5 branches, you take over the 2.x branch under whatever name
>>you want (I assume you'll call it fftw2, but it also occured to me that
>>we could call it compat-fftw2 or something like that--you're the
>>maintainer so you can decide).
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>  I will choose fftw2 since in a sense it is a different library. Also usually 
>we don't have devel packages for compat packages, this is a requirement now, 
>so..
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>>I will take over fftw and update it to 
>>the new 3.1 release, and the fftw3 name will be abandoned. If you agree
>>with this, go ahead and create the 2.x package and notify me when it's
>>done. I will make the necessary changes to fftw and I will notify the
>>maintainers of packages that depend on fftw3 (mostly me). The fftw and
>>fftw3 spec files are mostly the same, but the fftw3 spec has a few
>>details that could be helpful in creating a package whose name differs
>>from the upstream name.
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>  The other option is for you to take control of fftw version 2, I will not 
>object. :-)
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You can have it. I don't maintain anything that uses fftw 2.x, so I have 
no interest in maintaining it.

>  Notice that I am not refusing the maintenance of fftw. :-)
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>  So whatever is the path taken we should proceed. :-)
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>  If you decline the maintenance of version 2 as soon as you answer I will 
>change the ownership of fftw, now rename fftw2, to me.
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>  I will import the last srpm to extras and I will require the creation of 
>branch FC4 and the removal of fftw3 from development and FC4.
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>  Does this sounds like a plan? :-)
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This sounds like a plan.

-Quentin