Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 240647
broken URL in gnome-ppp package description
Last modified: 2008-04-05 12:50:02 EDT
Description of problem: broken URL in gnome-ppp package description URL : http://www.icmreza.co.yu/blogs/vladecks/?page_id Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-ppp-0.3.23-3.fc6 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: rpm -qi gnome-ppp
Thanks for the heads-up. Looks like upstream completely vanished. gnome-ppp hasn't been maintained actively for more than a year now, so I think I'm going to orphan this package.
Reply from upstream: "I have discontinued further development of gnome-ppp. The page vanished 'cause I have no hosting for it any more. Since there is still community surrounding gnome-ppp, I haven't bothered to setup new web page for it." If nobody objects I'm going to orphan this package in a week.
Since the upstream has disappeared wouldn't it make more sense to remove the URL field from the spec file?
No sure if this is allowed by Fedora guidelines. I think I'm going to orphan gnome-ppp anyway.
Based on the date this bug was created, it appears to have been reported against rawhide during the development of a Fedora release that is no longer maintained. In order to refocus our efforts as a project we are flagging all of the open bugs for releases which are no longer maintained. If this bug remains in NEEDINFO thirty (30) days from now, we will automatically close it. If you can reproduce this bug in a maintained Fedora version (7, 8, or rawhide), please change this bug to the respective version and change the status to ASSIGNED. (If you're unable to change the bug's version or status, add a comment to the bug and someone will change it for you.) Thanks for your help, and we apologize again that we haven't handled these issues to this point. The process we're following is outlined here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/F9CleanUp We will be following the process here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping to ensure this doesn't happen again.
this bug is still present in gnome-ppp-0.3.23-5.fc9 Christoph has this package been actually orphaned?
Yes, the package is orphaned now. Closing this bug CANTFIX.
Do orphaned packages get removed from the repository or not? Why is gnome-ppp still present in rawhide?
I guess because i orphaned it 3 hours ago.