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Description of problem: There are applications which have dependencies on gmime however it appears as though the epel 6 package has been orphaned and subsequently removed from the epel 6 repository. Please restore the package to the repository. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/rpms/gmime/ https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/gmime till retired gmime in el6 3 days ago till pushed to gmime (el6). "2016-11-20: Retired orphaned package, because it was orphaned for (..more)" 3 days ago till retired gmime in el5 3 days ago till pushed to gmime (el5). "2016-11-20: Retired orphaned package, because it was orphaned for (..more)" 3 days
The package was removed because it has no maintainer. It can't be re-added to the repository until it has a maintainer. Filing a bugzilla ticket to the attention of the maintainer who does not exist sadly doesn't change that basic fact. (I only happened to notice this ticket in an IRC log.) If there are packages in EPEL6 which require this package then they will be removed from EPEL6 as well. Generally that all happens automatically but it might not have happened in this instance. If you require this package, I can only suggest that you volunteer to maintain it. Come to the epel-devel mailing list or #epel on freenode and I'm sure someone would be willing to assist you.
(In reply to Jason Tibbitts from comment #1) > The package was removed because it has no maintainer. It can't be re-added > to the repository until it has a maintainer. Filing a bugzilla ticket to > the attention of the maintainer who does not exist sadly doesn't change that > basic fact. (I only happened to notice this ticket in an IRC log.) > > If there are packages in EPEL6 which require this package then they will be > removed from EPEL6 as well. Generally that all happens automatically but it > might not have happened in this instance. > > If you require this package, I can only suggest that you volunteer to > maintain it. Come to the epel-devel mailing list or #epel on freenode and > I'm sure someone would be willing to assist you. Thank you for responding here Jason. Reviewing the code base it appears as though the developer hasn't issued any new releases since 2014. It doesn't appear as though the source has changed since the last release. I'm not sure I am the right person to maintain a package but I'll consider it. I suppose this can be closed for now.