#6128 Unblock fontpackages for EPEL 5
Closed: Fixed None Opened 9 years ago by robert.

Can you please unblock fontpackages for EPEL 5?

According to ​https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Orphaned_package_that_need_new_maintainers#Claiming_Ownership_of_a_Retired_Package no re-review is necessary because the package is still alive in Fedora and I would like to take care of EPEL 5.

Thank you!


Note the root cause of all these package removals is rpmdevtools package which is long ago orphaned and still co-owned by users ausil and kevin. If you want re-again add fontpackages in EPEL5 then you may want to own rpmdevtools also otherwise till would love to remove these font related packages.

I still get confused by these terms POC and package admins in pkgdb. It looks confusing where a package have co-owners in POC and (co-)owners as package admins and it gets removed from the repository.

My personal plan is to act for fontpackages on EL-5 similar like in RHBZ#761409 which hopefully avoids this situation again.

That fix only removed fedora-packager but I found all these packages are removed because of rpmdevtools and fontpackages-devel in el5 still needs it. See the package I built showing this http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/rpminfo?rpmID=5963625 here.

I have no interest in maintaining rpmdevtools in epel5. Thats why I didn't take ownership.

As far as I am concerned you're welcome to take it on and bring it back...

pnemade, you're absolutely right. I overlooked this. But do these spec file templates really make sense for EL-5?

Afaik, you can drop the rpmdevtools dependency safely as its there just for directory /etc/rpmdevtools ownership. If rpmdevtools package remain dropped then own that directory by fontpackages-devel in EPEL5.

fontpackages package is mainly developed and maintained in all branches by nim (Nicolas Mailhot).

Replying to [comment:1 pnemade]:

Note the root cause of all these package removals is rpmdevtools package which is long ago orphaned and still co-owned by users ausil and kevin. If you want re-again add fontpackages in EPEL5 then you may want to own rpmdevtools also otherwise till would love to remove these font related packages.

I do not love to remove the packages, but would like maintainers to adopt the relevant packages when they are still required instead of just leaving them in an unmaintained state. Also you probably need to unretire the dependencies, otherwise nobody will be able to use fontpackages.

Replying to [comment:1 pnemade]:

I still get confused by these terms POC and package admins in pkgdb. It looks confusing where a package have co-owners in POC and (co-)owners as package admins and it gets removed from the repository.

If there is no POC, nobody gets bug reports. And if the co-maintainers do not become POC when a package is orphaned, they express that they are not interested in maintaining the package anymore.

unblocked fontpackages, thank you, please restore git and rebuild it.

hm, so what magic happened here, I see fedora-cvs? flag for https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181725 and Robert still able to built an update?

Replying to [comment:10 pnemade]:

hm, so what magic happened here, I see fedora-cvs? flag for https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181725 and Robert still able to built an update?

It was no magic, I unretired it directly in pkgdb. I Did not know about the Package Change Request.

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