Re: quite a few packages are still missing in the repos :-(

On 07.09.2008 09:46, Hans de Goede wrote: > Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >> On 03.09.2008 19:35, Hans de Goede wrote: >>> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >>>> == packages with owners == >>> <snip> >>> whoa those are not mine, they are all dribble packages which used to >>> be maintained by Ian Chapman, who is currently emigrating to >>> Australia, it would be good to keep them around as he may pick them >>> up again when he has go settled there, but in no way are they mine. >>> With that said I'll pickup pangzero, but the rest is not mine, nor >>> do I feel inclined to pick them up. >> While at it: According to >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/ContributorStatusNo >> you are not participating in EPEL. So I suppose you don't have any >> interest in maintaining your RPM Fusion packages for the EL branch >> and thus all those owners.epel.list entries below are wrong? (And no, >> I didn't create those entrys >> nor did I branch those packages)? > Actually (I need to write a blog post about this and let the world) Sept > 1st I've started working for RH on the installer team, Congrats; hopefully you enjoy your new job.

> for now please continue importing them. I think it would be good for > me to still > be in the loop for the gstreamer packages, gstreamer packages are nasty > because newer upstream gstreamer-foo packages often require a newer base > gstreamer then we have in Fedora / EPEL, this is for example why I have > different gstreamer-foo versions in F-8 then in F-9 / devel. Yeah, I wouldn't have simply build then;

but for most of the packages I build up to now it's afaics just fine to ship the same versions as for Fedora.