Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (174 mails)

[Vincent Untz <vuntz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le mercredi 04 mars 2009, à 13:06 +0100, Lars Vogdt a écrit :
> Hi there
>
> Following the "Package foo needs new maintainer" resp. "Drop request for 
> package foo" mails on opensuse-packaging for a while. Community members 
> already asked for more details when a package is dropped from Factory.
>
> So what about creating an "openSUSE:Dropped" project, where people can 
> find the latest source of a dropped package - and at least can get an 
> overview about currently dropped packages?

FWIW, for the GNOME team, I try to keep dropped packages available in
projects like home:vuntz:Attic_11.0, home:vuntz:Attic_11.1, etc. Build
is disabled there but at least it makes it easy for someone to take the
package back if he wants.

So I think your idea makes at least some sense :-)

Vincent

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