On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 11:08:30 +0100
Hans de Goede <hdegoede(a)redhat.com> wrote:
I don't see who the orphaning without following proper procedure
is
appropriate at all. Simply blocking the ones which FTBFS bugs were not
fixed from F-13 inclusion would have been the appropriate response
(as documented in our procedures), not
some adhoc almost random response.
These packages have failed to build for over a year.
Sure, we could allow them to continue if someone steps in to build
them, but then who is answering bugzilla tickets on them? Who is
following upstream and updating them, in short: who is maintaining
them? Not the maintainer of record it seems.
if you want them to go on, take ownership.
Sorry for the bug that prevented people from doing this, it's been
fixed.
kevin