EPEL Orphaned packages to be removed December 17th, 2014

eva2000 · Nov 17, 2014

Not sure what that means for EPEL packages related to Centmin Mod, but saw the news that EPEL yum repository orphaned YUM packages will be removed by Dec 17th, 2014.

A few days back, Steven announced that they were going to start working to drop these orphaned packages unless someone steps up to help maintain them. You can read his announcement here :[EPEL-devel] EPEL-ANNOUNCE First Notice: EPEL Orphaned packages and their dependents to be removed Dec 17th.

This is a great time for anyone looking to get involved with packages and packaging as a whole and wanting to contribute into the larger CentOS Linux ecosystem to jump in and take ownership of content ( ideally stuff that you care about, hence likely to keep it managed for a period of time ). They have a simple process to get started, document at the Joining EPEL page here :Joining EPEL - FedoraProject and you can see a list of packages being orphaned on the urls from Steven’s post linked above.
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Packages in the EPEL repository require an active maintainer (or
maintainers) so that they can be maintained. Orphaned packages are to be
removed from the channel if no one takes them after 6 weeks. At the last
EPEL Steering Committee meeting, it was decided to 'relax' this rule for
current orphaned packages until Dec 17th, 2014 so that there is time for
packages to be picked up.

Packages which do not have all their dependencies in a repoclosure of the
main upstream repositories and EPEL also are not to remain in the
repository.

Reports on packages that are orphaned and removed are listed in the
following archived emails.

[EPEL-devel] Orphaned Packages in epel5 (2014-11-01)
[EPEL-devel] Orphaned Packages in epel6 (2014-11-01)
[EPEL-devel] Orphaned Packages in epel7 (2014-11-01)

{What to do if you need a package? Get the package un-orphaned.}
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