mpg123 is in Fedora 25+ now, should be dropped from rpmfusion

Nicolas Chauvet kwizart at gmail.com
Sun Nov 13 12:23:02 CET 2016


2016-11-13 12:00 GMT+01:00 Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> On 13-11-16 11:33, Nicolas Chauvet wrote:
>>
>> 2016-11-13 10:54 GMT+01:00 Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On 13-11-16 09:53, Andrea Musuruane wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Hans,
>>>>      you have to retire it (not to orphan it).
>>>>
>>>> This procedure is up to date AFAIK:
>>>> http://rpmfusion.org/Contributors#Retiring_a_package
>>>>
>>>> Bye,
>>>>
>>>> Andrea
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you, I've added dead.package files to git and created:
>>>
>>> https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4335
>>
>> I think you should be able to use pkgdb to retire the package.
>> Now I still wonder if we still need mpg123 in 25 GA repo. I think so,
>> so it won't break users that might install with kickstart and only GA
>> repos for both projects.
>
>
> I went here (and logged in):
>
> https://admin.rpmfusion.org/pkgdb/package/free/mpg123/
>
> I can orphan it there, but I don't think I can retire it
> there.

Just a tought, it could need to be provided in epel (until RHEL directly) also.
So we wouldn't have to keep older branches.
Unfortunately the import didn't kept our history, so it's won't be
easy to sync branches.
Anyway, in the mpg123 case, using the latest seems better.



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Nicolas (kwizart)


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