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What are orphaned packages?

On Thu, 26 Sep 2019 at 20:02, ?ukasz Posadowski
<mail at lukaszposadowski.pl> wrote:
>
> Data Wed, 25 Sep 2019 12:36:31 -0500
> Jon Pruente <jpruente at riskanalytics.com> napisa?(a):
>
> > On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 12:01 PM ?ukasz Posadowski
> > <mail at lukaszposadowski.pl> wrote:
> >
> > > I'm trying it right now. I pleasantly discover PHP 7.2 with
fpm and
> > > Python 3.6, which is exactly what I installed from 3rd party
> > > repositories in Centos 7 on my vps. I will test upgrade from C7
to
> > > disable epel and webtatic.
> >
> >
> > Did you try SCL instead of directly installing packages from another
> > repo? It is similar to how the new Appstreams allow multiple
> > concurrent versions.
>
> I did not. Thank You, I will check it.
>
> > > I'm waiting for blogs and "youtubs" to report
> > > on appstream and what I could install from Fedora maybe. I have
more
> > > confidence in Fedora repos than epel, since the latter is usually
> > > rebuild Fedora packages anyway.
> > >
> >
> > EPEL is a Fedora SIG project.
>
> Yeah, I know, but I saw pretty much orphaned packages, made by people
> who do not use packaged software, nor CentOS.
>
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Data Fri, 27 Sep 2019 14:01:32 +0800
Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming <teo.en.ming.smartphone at gmail.com>
napisa?(a):
> What are orphaned packages?
That is a term for a package in the repo (and generally for any
project), that is technically working, but no one is watching over it.
Some maintainers speak openly about it, but some do not and a package
is still in the repo, but do not receive updates, nor fixes.

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?ukasz Posadowski

Noted with thanks.

On Fri, 27 Sep 2019 at 23:25, ?ukasz Posadowski
<mail at lukaszposadowski.pl> wrote:
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> Data Fri, 27 Sep 2019 14:01:32 +0800
> Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming <teo.en.ming.smartphone at gmail.com>
> napisa?(a):
>
> > What are orphaned packages?
>
> That is a term for a package in the repo (and generally for any
> project), that is technically working, but no one is watching over it.
> Some maintainers speak openly about it, but some do not and a package
> is still in the repo, but do not receive updates, nor fixes.
>
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U.S. Embassy Workers

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Qualifications as at 14 Feb 2019 and refugee seeking attempts at the
United Nations Refugee Agency Bangkok (21 Mar 2017) and in Taiwan (5
Aug 2019):

[1] https://tdtemcerts.wordpress.com/

[2] https://tdtemcerts.blogspot.sg/

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