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

[Hans de Goede]

Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> 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.
>

Thanks.

>> 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;

Ack, I think they are going to be a pain (for RHEL), ah well.

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

ACK.

Regards,

Hans