Re: Sub-package dropped upstream

2014-01-09 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 12:08:49 -0800, Jorge Gallegos wrote: Hi, I maintain the uwsgi package for fedora, which optionally builds a bunch of modules to integrate with several other languages. One of the plugins got recently removed upstream but it hasn't got any replacements yet (see the top

Re: Sub-package dropped upstream

2014-01-09 Thread Alec Leamas
Yes, still it's an interesting issue... perhaps one count how many which actually are installed, but many problems also here: users privacy/opt-in, easily spoofed, infrastructure. In any case it would be great to have some estimate on this. On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 9:40 PM, Michael Schwendt

Re: Sub-package dropped upstream

2014-01-09 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 22:20:10 +0100, Alec Leamas wrote: Yes, still it's an interesting issue... perhaps one count how many which actually are installed, Installed and used actively would be more interesting. Especially with regard to optional plugins, which perhaps are not loaded/executed at

Re: Sub-package dropped upstream

2014-01-09 Thread Jorge Gallegos
On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 10:45:44PM +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 22:20:10 +0100, Alec Leamas wrote: Yes, still it's an interesting issue... perhaps one count how many which actually are installed, Installed and used actively would be more interesting. Especially

Re: Sub-package dropped upstream

2014-01-09 Thread Jorge Gallegos
On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 02:38:50PM -0800, Jorge Gallegos wrote: On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 10:45:44PM +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 22:20:10 +0100, Alec Leamas wrote: Yes, still it's an interesting issue... perhaps one count how many which actually are installed,

Re: Sub-package dropped upstream

2014-01-09 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 14:38:50 -0800, Jorge Gallegos wrote: The package may not come back any time soon, and I actually have no idea if patching it back from the old sources would be feasible (I haven't looked to what extent it is broken.) If it does come back in the future I understand it