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| == About Orphan and Retired (Deprecated) Packages ==
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| When Fedora maintainers do not want or are not able to maintain a package any
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| longer, they can orphan or [[How_to_remove_a_package_at_end_of_life|retire]] the
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| package. When they think that the package is still useful for Fedora, they
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| should orphan it. Then other maintainers that are interested in maintaining it,
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| can take ownership of this package. In case the package is no longer useful for
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| Fedora, e.g. because it was renamed, upstream does not exist anymore, then it
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| should be retired. But this is only possible for development releases such as Branched or Rawhide.
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| Orphaned packages remain in stable releases and are the responsibility of the collective packaging community to maintain.
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| {{admon/warning|Retiring packages|Orphan packages will be retired if they remain orphaned for six weeks.}} | |
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| {{admon/warning|When to orphan and retire your packages|We encourage maintainers considering orphaning their packages to do it as early in the development cycle as possible. Shortly after the prior release is branched is a good time.}}
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| == Orphaning Procedure ==
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| # Announce on [https://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel devel] which package you want to orphan.
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| # Log into the [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/ Package Database] and select the package you want to orphan.
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| # Press the "Release Ownership" button for each active branch that you want to orphan.
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| == Claiming Ownership of an Orphaned Package Procedure ==
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| # Check why the package was orphaned by looking for the email to [https://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel devel].
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| # Announce on [https://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel devel] which packages you would like to become the owner of.
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| # Log into the [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/ Package Database] and select the package you want to become the owner of.
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| # Press the "Take Ownership" button for each active branch that you want to maintain.
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| # Take over and join (or re-assign to you) open bug reports in bugzilla where package owner's attention is needed.
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| == Claiming Ownership of a Retired Package ==
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| If you really want to maintain a retired package, you need to be aware that
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| if upstream is dead, fixing release critical bugs, etc becomes your
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| responsibility. This is to ensure the high quality and standards of packaging
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| remain for Fedora package collection. There may be additional issues with
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| retired packages. If possible, consult with the former maintainer for more information.
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| The process is a bit different from unorphaning a package | |
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| # See if you can figure out why the package was retired including searching for information about orphaned packages on [https://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel devel mailing list] or emailing the former maintainer. You can also check dead.package in the SCM (url like: [http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/system-config-network.git/tree/dead.package http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/'''package_name_here'''.git/tree/dead.package])
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| # Announce on [https://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel devel] which packages you would like to become the owner of.
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| # Retired Fedora packages (master/devel/rawhide branch retired) require a re-review if they are retired for more than two weeks or if there is no previous review of the package. Submit a review request (a new bugzilla ticket) and have the package approved by a reviewer as if it were new to Fedora. See [[Package Review Process|the package review process]] for more information. To unretire a EPEL branch if the package is still in Fedora, no re-review is required.
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| # Open a [[package SCM admin requests|package SCM admin request]] after the re-review, in the new re-review ticket (or existing one if the re-review is not required per the previous clause) to assign ownership to you. Specify all branches that need to be un-retired (inlcuding "devel" for Rawhide, unless it is for EPEL only)
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| # Request that the [[ReleaseEngineering|Release Engineering team]] unblock the package for the releases that the package should be un-retired for via their [https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/newticket trac instance]. In this request, please post a link to the completed re-review and clearly specify which branches should be unblocked.
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| == Lists of Orphan and Retired Packages ==
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| * Orphan packages: [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/orphaned/?status=Orphaned&branches=master Rawhide/master], [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/orphaned/?status=Orphaned&branches=el5 EPEL 5], [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/orphaned/?status=Orphaned&branches=el6 EPEL 6], [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/orphaned/?status=Orphaned&branches=epel7 EPEL 7]
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| * [[Deprecated packages]] (not up to date, a complete list is currently not publicly available).
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| == References ==
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| * https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1332
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| * http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2014-08-27/fesco.2014-08-27-17.00.html
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