On 06/28/2010 05:28 PM, David Lutterkort wrote:

On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 16:07 -0400, Mohammed Morsi wrote:

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Hey, so I spent far too long over the last few days trying to get activerecord v2.3.8 to compile against Fedora before I realized that I was basing my attempt off the wrong package.

Specifically, we have two activerecord rpms in Fedora, ruby-activerecord and rubygem-activerecord

http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/ruby-activerecord/ http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/rubygem-activerecord/

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/ruby-activerecord https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/rubygem-activerecord

Obviously, conforming to standards, rubygem-activerecord is the way to go, and I can't figure out why we are keeping ruby-activerecord around, especially since its horribly out of date (pulling version 2.0.1, the package itself has not been updated since 2007).

Can we orphan / remove ruby-activerecord all together?

Since nobody's been complaining, I think the answer is yes. Feel free to nuke it (together with ruby-activesupport)

David

So there are a couple of things that need tbd to retire a package, and I believe only the package owner (you in both cases David) can do so.

We probably are set with just retiring the package in devel / rawhide, we can do so in the F13 and F12 branches as well if we want, but I don't think it's necessary.

In any case the procedure to do so is here https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/PackageEndOfLife , particularily we need to

- add a file called 'dead.package' to the devel branch in cvs

- remove all other files from the devel branch in cvs

- mark the package as retired via pkgdb https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/ruby-activerecord https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/ruby-activesupport

- file a ticket w/ rel-eng to block the package from further updates https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/newticket

Once again, with the exception of the last, I believe the package owner is the only person who can retire a package, else I'd be more than willing to do so.

-Mo