On 03/06/2014 12:03 PM, Susi Lehtola wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Mar 2014 11:31:18 +0100
> Michael J Gruber <m...@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> I just git a "broken dependencies" notice for a package that I maintain.
>> The reason is that "pdftk" got retired just the other day.
>>
>> I may have missed a corresponding post on fedora-devel, but I think a
>> heads up notice to maintainers of depending packages may be in order
>> before you retire a package, as a general idea.
>>
>> You see, unretiring a package is so much more work than changing
>> maintainership.
>>
>> As for pdftk: I see 2 failed builds for version 1.45 and none for the
>> current version 2.02 (which probably breaks the api anyways). What are
>> the plans? Retire pdftk completely? Start fresh with pdftk2?
>>
>> pdflabs, the maker of pdftk, provide binary as well as source rpms for
>> pdftk 2.02, by the way. I might even look into packaging it but don't
>> want to duplicate any existing efforts.
>>
>> Michael
> 
> +1
> 
> pdftk is a very important package, so new (co)maintainers shouldn't be
> hard to find.
> 
+++1

Joachim Backes

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