On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 07:48:48PM -0400, Paul Wouters wrote:
On Tue, 24 Jul 2012, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
I'd like to take ownership of “maradns” package. It is a small DNS server, which I do use. I'd like to update version in Fedora to 2.0 branch and continue maintaining it. maradns was deprecated some time ago. In pkgdb I was able only to take F16 branch. What should I do to get F18, too?
If a package is marked depreciated, you need to submit it for review again. Once it passes review you get the newer branches and can ask rel-eng to unblock it.
Thanks Kevin, just as I thought: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=840602
It's been abandoned by upstream and is known to have DNS implementation issues. I'd strongly recommend you switch DNS software.
It is being maintained with minimal effort - author spends about an hour monthly. Security issues are dealt with special priority out-of-band. Last entry in development blog was over last weekend, so it is not dead.