On 6 August 2014 23:02, Till Maas <opensource@till.name> wrote:
On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 05:15:17PM +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote:

> So, I went to orphan the Fedora branches of cmake28 (not sure why these
> branches were created in the first place - I had meant only to create an

What did you request where?

As I say below, I orphaned the F21, F20, F19 branches on pkgdb. Then I checked out the F21 branch with fedpkg and tried to run the command below. Have I misunderstood your question?
 

> EL6 branch). Anyway, stupidly, I orphaned them in pkgdb before running
> fedpkg retire on the relevant branch, which is precisely the wrong way
> round to do things. So, now I see:
>
> $ fedpkg retire "Unneeded as main cmake packge provides this functionality"
> Could not retire package: 'Namespace' object has no attribute 'msg'

This error message indicates an old/broken fedpkg, which version did you
run on which Fedora and was it the lastest update?

I ran this on my F20 machine, fully updated - fedpkg-1.16-1
 

> So, I think I need a proven packager to finish the retirement process for
> these branches - could someone do so?

Which branches exactly? Master and the Fedora branches?


Yes, exactly.


Cheers,
Jonathan.