Re: Orphaned packages looking for new maintainers

Michel Lind <[email protected]> Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:33:12 +0100
Newsgroups	gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
On Sat, 2026-06-20 at 22:36 +0000, Packaging Reports via devel-announce
wrote:
> Report started at 2026-06-20 22:00:52 UTC
> 
> The following packages are orphaned and will be retired when they
> are orphaned for six weeks, unless someone adopts them. If you know
> for sure
> that the package should be retired, please do so now with a proper
> reason:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_remove_a_package_at_end_of_life
> 
> Note: If you received this mail directly you (co)maintain one of the
> affected
> packages or a package that depends on one. Please adopt the affected
> package or
> retire your depending package to avoid broken dependencies, otherwise
> your
> package will be retired when the affected package gets retired.
> 
> Request package ownership via the *Take* button in the left column on
> https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/<pkgname>
> 
> Full report available at:
> https://a.gtmx.me/orphans/orphans.txt
> grep it for your FAS username and follow the dependency chain.
> 
> For human readable dependency chains,
> see https://packager-dashboard.fedoraproject.org/
> For all orphaned packages,
> see https://packager-dashboard.fedoraproject.org/orphan
> 
> 
[snip]
> ccze                              @epel-packagers-sig, orphan,     1
> weeks ago  
>                                  
> salimma                                      
> 
Comaintainer here.

For ccze, we have effectively been using Debian as an upstream anyway,
and Debian does have a patch to build it against PCRE 2:

https://sources.debian.org/src/ccze/0.2.1-8/debian/patches/pcre2.patch

Is anyone interested in taking this over? I'm also checking if anyone
at $dayjob feels like keeping this, in which case I can backport the
Debian fix and keep this alive (but happy to take comaintainers)

If not, Kenny Glowner is seeking to be sponsored and I just recommended
he submits a new package in

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2454279#c6

No reason we can't keep both alive and just make one conflict with the
other though, at least in the short term - but if there's no taker I'd
rather just retire this.

Best regards,


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