On Wednesday, 25 March 2009 at 20:36, Alex Lancaster wrote:
"NM" == Nicolas Mailhot writes:
NM> Le Mer 25 mars 2009 11:29, Rawhide Report a écrit :
mapnik-0.5.2-0.12.svn780.fc11
- Tue Mar 24 2009 Alex Lancaster <alexlan[AT] fedoraproject org> -
- Fix font Requires: dejavu-fonts-compat and macro
NM> Why the hell is a dep on this added now? Is the package name, NM> description, the pages of wiki help and months of repeated bugzilla NM> tickets and information mails not sufficient to make clear THIS SHOULD NM> NOT BE DONE?
The broken deps that made mapnik completely uninstallable (it had "Requires: dejavu-fonts-sans") needed to be fixed quickly for the f11-beta by rel-eng (because of closed ACLs). I'm not the primary maintainer of the package (who is non-responsive) and hence probably not on the bugzilla tickets.
If the maintainer is non-responsive then the appropriate procedure[1] should be initiated to take the package over.
Regards, R.
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Policy_for_nonresponsive_package_maintainers