#15: Who retired libgeotiff -----------------------------+---------------------------- Reporter: smooge | Owner: epel-wranglers Type: defect | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: Component: Package request | Version: Keywords: | -----------------------------+---------------------------- The libgeotiff package was retired for some reason out EPEL but not by the maintainers? [Probably a quick what do we do with this and move on.]

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EPEL RHEL6 libgeotiff package missing Inbox x Fed-DT-List x  Mika Heiskanen mika.heiskanen@fmi.fi via lists.fedoraproject.org 6 Oct (3 days ago)  to epel-devel, tuomo.lauri Hello,

It seems like the libgeotiff package has been removed from the RHEL6 repository. We could not find any news on the subject. Does anyone know if the package has been removed intentionally?

Our servers show the installed version to be as follows:

Name : libgeotiff Arch : x86_64 Version : 1.2.5 Release : 5.el6 Size : 4.4 M Repo : installed From repo : epel Summary : GeoTIFF format library URL : http://www.remotesensing.org/geotiff/geotiff.html

Currently we cannot install some software to our new servers due to the missing libgeotiff dependency. For example "yum install gdal" fails.

Regards,

Mika Heiskanen / FMI _______________________________________________ epel-devel mailing list epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel  Till Maas via lists.fedoraproject.org 6 Oct (3 days ago)  to orion, EPEL, tuomo.lauri Hi,

On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 10:24:30AM +0300, Mika Heiskanen wrote:

It seems like the libgeotiff package has been removed from the RHEL6 repository. We could not find any news on the subject. Does anyone know if the package has been removed intentionally?

the process to remove the package was started before May this year but it was not finished (the package was retired in packagedb: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/libgeotiff/)

Before recently, a second step was required to actually remove the package from the repos. This is now automated, which is why the package is now not available via the mirrors. I do not know how retired the package, because it cannot be easily queried right now, but it might have been Orion, who built the package the last time.

Our servers show the installed version to be as follows:

Name : libgeotiff Arch : x86_64 Version : 1.2.5 Release : 5.el6

Currently we cannot install some software to our new servers due to the missing libgeotiff dependency. For example "yum install gdal" fails.

You can still download the package from kojipkgs if it helps you now: https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/libgeotiff/1.2.5/5.el6/x86_64/l...

However it is not maintained currently in EPEL 5 and 6. To get it back into EPEL 6 someone needs to step up as a new maintainer and ask for a re-review:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Orphaned_package_that_need_new_maintainers#Cl...

Regards   Orion Poplawski via lists.fedoraproject.org 6 Oct (3 days ago)  to Devrim, Till, EPEL, tuomo.lauri On 10/06/2014 10:39 AM, Till Maas wrote:

Hi,

On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 10:24:30AM +0300, Mika Heiskanen wrote:

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It seems like the libgeotiff package has been removed from the RHEL6 repository. We could not find any news on the subject. Does anyone know if the package has been removed intentionally?

the process to remove the package was started before May this year but it was not finished (the package was retired in packagedb: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/libgeotiff/)

Don't think it was me. CC'ing Volker and Devrim. 

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