On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 11:09:12AM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
And retiring packages is too difficult in Fedora. The process is
complex or not known by all packagers:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_remove_a_package_at_end_of_life
Some retire only in pkgdb (some create orphans instead, which somebody else
picks up without checking history), others only create the dead.package
file. Renaming is particularly more complicated, if another packager needs
to take action and retire something properly prior to another (mass-)rebuild.
It recently became easier, because "fedpkg retire" takes care of the
most important steps since recently.
I've opened tickets about the "undeads" below, but
I'm not sure there
will be a response to all of them. Basically, all of them should be
blocked in koji for F20 and newer *and* retired in pkgdb, and the
undeads are not marked dead in git yet.
I guess you won't get responses to packages that are orphaned, because
then the bug report is assigned to the orphan user.
Dead and all builds obsoleted:
------------------------------
classads
ibus-table-array30
openstack-quantum
pdfbook
python-cryptsetup
python-quantumclient
These are now all blocked (some of them were already). You might want to
use the koji repos directly to get more up-to-date results:
http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/mash/rawhide/i386/os
Undead and all builds obsoleted:
--------------------------------
drupal6-drush
jaxen-bootstrap
joystick
kdirstat
latexdiff
nss-myhostname
pdfjam
ps2eps
seahorse-plugins
zeitgeist-datahub
If nobody objects, I can take care of above packages as well and retire
them properly. Can you maybe tweak your script to also show which
package obsoletes the package? This would make it easier to create a
meaningful dead.package file.
Here is some more detailed information about the packages, created with
http://till.fedorapeople.org/tmp/pkginfo.py - you mind find some code in
there helpful.
=== drupal6-drush: Drush is a command line shell and scripting interface for Drupal ===
Tags: None
Branch: devel:
Owner: afsilva (asrob, siwinski)
Status: 3 (Approved) (2012-03-22 14:19:47.169709+00:00)
Critpath: False
Dead:
Branch: f20:
Owner: afsilva (siwinski, asrob)
Status: 3 (Approved) (2013-08-20 20:14:10.217109+00:00)
Critpath: False
Dead:
Branch: f19:
Owner: afsilva (asrob, siwinski)
Status: 3 (Approved) (2013-03-12 02:04:59.645238+00:00)
Critpath: False
Dead:
=== jaxen-bootstrap: A convenience package for build of dom4j ===
Tags: None
Branch: devel:
Owner: s4504kr ()
Status: 3 (Approved) (2011-12-01 16:09:36.313808+00:00)
Critpath: False
Dead:
Branch: f20:
Owner: s4504kr ()
Status: 3 (Approved) (2013-08-20 20:14:10.217109+00:00)
Critpath: False
Dead:
Branch: f19:
Owner: s4504kr ()
Status: 3 (Approved) (2013-03-12 02:23:38.768624+00:00)
Critpath: False
Dead:
=== joystick: Utilities for configuring most popular joysticks. ===
Tags: None
Branch: devel:
Owner: orphan (karsten)
Status: 20 (Deprecated) (2013-01-15 17:23:50.239890+00:00)
Critpath: False
Dead:
Branch: f20:
Owner: orphan (karsten)
Status: 20 (Deprecated) (2013-08-20 20:14:10.217109+00:00)
Critpath: False
Dead:
Branch: f19:
Owner: orphan (karsten)
Status: 20 (Deprecated) (2013-03-12 02:35:26.583016+00:00)
Critpath: False
Dead:
=== kdirstat: Graphical Directory Statistics for Used Disk Space ===
Tags: None
Branch: devel:
Owner: chitlesh ()
Status: 3 (Approved) (2008-07-22 17:12:54.972471+00:00)
Critpath: False
Dead:
Branch: f20:
Owner: chitlesh ()
Status: 3 (Approved) (2013-08-20 20:31:55.339085+00:00)
Critpath: False
Dead:
Branch: f19:
Owner: chitlesh ()
Status: 3 (Approved) (2013-03-12 02:35:26.583016+00:00)
Critpath: False
Dead:
=== latexdiff: Determine and mark up significant differences between latex files ===
Tags: None
Branch: devel:
Owner: danken ()
Status: 3 (Approved) (2009-01-13 20:36:55.000710+00:00)
Critpath: False
Dead:
Branch: f20:
Owner: danken ()
Status: 3 (Approved) (2013-08-20 20:31:55.339085+00:00)
Critpath: False
Dead:
Branch: f19:
Owner: danken ()
Status: 3 (Approved) (2013-03-12 02:35:26.583016+00:00)
Critpath: False
Dead:
=== nss-myhostname: glibc plugin for local system host name resolution ===
Tags: None
Branch: devel:
Owner: lennart ()
Status: 3 (Approved) (2009-05-10 19:16:52.484515+00:00)
Critpath: True
Dead:
Branch: f20:
Owner: lennart ()
Status: 3 (Approved) (2013-08-20 20:31:55.339085+00:00)
Critpath: False
Dead:
Branch: f19:
Owner: lennart ()
Status: 3 (Approved) (2013-03-12 02:55:37.326894+00:00)
Critpath: False
Dead:
=== pdfjam: Utilities for join, rotate and align PDFs ===
Tags: None
Branch: devel:
Owner: salimma ()
Status: 3 (Approved) (2008-07-22 17:12:54.972471+00:00)
Critpath: False
Dead:
Branch: f20:
Owner: salimma ()
Status: 3 (Approved) (2013-08-20 20:31:55.339085+00:00)
Critpath: False
Dead:
Branch: f19:
Owner: salimma ()
Status: 3 (Approved) (2013-03-12 02:55:37.326894+00:00)
Critpath: False
Dead:
=== ps2eps: PS-to-EPS converter ===
Tags: None
Branch: devel:
Owner: terjeros (pertusus)
Status: 3 (Approved) (2008-07-22 17:12:54.972471+00:00)
Critpath: False
Dead:
Branch: f20:
Owner: terjeros (pertusus)
Status: 3 (Approved) (2013-08-20 21:08:26.487876+00:00)
Critpath: False
Dead:
Branch: f19:
Owner: terjeros (pertusus)
Status: 3 (Approved) (2013-03-12 02:55:37.326894+00:00)
Critpath: False
Dead:
=== seahorse-plugins: Plugins and utilities for encryption in GNOME ===
Tags: None
Branch: devel:
Owner: mclasen (tbzatek, mcrha)
Status: 3 (Approved) (2008-08-07 20:57:25.918113+00:00)
Critpath: False
Dead:
Branch: f20:
Owner: mclasen (tbzatek, mcrha)
Status: 3 (Approved) (2013-08-20 21:08:26.487876+00:00)
Critpath: False
Dead:
Branch: f19:
Owner: mclasen (tbzatek, mcrha)
Status: 3 (Approved) (2013-03-12 03:18:59.598784+00:00)
Critpath: False
Dead:
=== zeitgeist-datahub: The zeitgeist engine data logger ===
Tags: None
Branch: devel:
Owner: deji ()
Status: 3 (Approved) (2011-05-12 16:38:55.373427+00:00)
Critpath: False
Dead:
Branch: f20:
Owner: deji ()
Status: 3 (Approved) (2013-08-20 21:29:36.233359+00:00)
Critpath: False
Dead:
Branch: f19:
Owner: deji ()
Status: 3 (Approved) (2013-03-12 03:18:59.598784+00:00)
Critpath: False
Dead: