[Mageia-dev] what to do about misc packages?

Wed Jul 11 20:09:40 CEST 2012

On Wed, 11 Jul 2012, Jerome Quelin wrote:
+
+> hi,
+> 
+> misc is no longer contributing afaik, yet he is still listed as
+> maintainer for the following packages:
+> 
+>     $ mgarepo maintdb get |egrep 'misc$'
+>     bip misc
+>     couchdb misc
+>     desktopcouch misc
+>     ebtables misc
+>     facter misc
+>     gajim misc
+>     hping2 misc
+>     irssi misc
+>     libcgroup misc
+>     libvirt misc
+>     lsof misc
+>     lxc misc
+>     ndisc6 misc
+>     netcf misc
+>     openssh misc
+>     patcher misc
+>     postgrey misc
+>     puppet misc
+>     puppet-lint misc
+>     python misc
+>     python-couchdb misc
+>     python-django misc
+>     python-django-auth-ldap misc
+>     python-django-countries misc
+>     python-django-dpaste misc
+>     python-django-haystack misc
+>     python-django-keyedcache misc
+>     python-django-mptt misc
+>     python-django-piston misc
+>     python-django-robots misc
+>     python-django-simple-captcha misc
+>     python-django-tracking misc
+>     python-virtinst misc
+>     python3 misc
+>     qemu misc
+>     quagga misc
+>     radvd misc
+>     rpmlint misc
+>     rpmlint-mageia-policy misc
+>     rpmlint-mandriva-policy misc
+>     ruby-hiera misc
+>     ruby-hiera-puppet misc
+>     stompserver misc
+>     supybot-Meetbot misc
+>     tinyproxy misc
+>     tmux misc
+>     transifex misc
+>     vde2 misc
+> 
+> if people are interested by some of those packages, please state so and
+> we'll ask sysadmins to change maintainer db.
+
+The packages are now assigned to nobody, and can be taken by interested
+packagers.
+
+