On Mon January 28 2008, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
Just saw one of those again. Made me wonder: do we still need this
page?
Orphaned packages are tracked in the package db and CVS should have a
dead.package file explaining why a package was retired. Isn't that enough?
Imho the information should be in the Fedora Package Database, but I do not
know how it can get in there, e.g. there is only one package listed as
retired at
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/users/packages/retired
and there are also packages listed as orpaned, that are actually retired:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/thinkpad-kmod (this is
required according to the wiki).
There is also a ticket about this at hosted:
https://fedorahosted.org/packagedb/ticket/54
So just deleting the wiki page currently seems not to be a good decision,
better wait till the information can be fed into the package database.
Regards,
Till