FESCo today approved a change to how orphan and deprecated packages are
handled in Fedora.
The prior policy was:
- Packages that have been orphaned for more than three months require
a re-review, regardless of whether or not they have been blocked.
The new policy is:
- Any package that is deprecated (i.e., blocked) requires a re-review
before it can return to Fedora. Orphaned packages do not require
a re-review.
Note that orphaned packages will be deprecated once per release cycle.
For more information, see:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Orphaned_package_that_need_new_maintainers
Bill, on behalf of FESCo