On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 11:23:14AM -0400, Scott Talbert wrote:
> On Fri, 31 May 2019, Przemek Klosowski wrote:
>
> >On 5/30/19 2:18 PM, Adam Jackson wrote:
> >>Since I was looking at a copy of the F30 repo for amd64, here's a list
> >>of a bunch of packages whose dist tag suggests they haven't rebuilt
> >>successfully in any currently-supported Fedora release. I'm sure some
> >>of these are incompletely retired or there's otherwise some good reason
> >>for it, this is just to raise visibility.
> >
> >Almost half of these are noarch packages (178 out of 441---see
> >list at the bottom).
> >
> >For instance, dia-gnomeDIAicons is a noarch package, specifically
> >data for 'dia' diagram editor. It actually works, and even
> >contains reasonable and useful network diagram icons.
> >
> >Its packaging _is_ confusing because the actual icon collection is
> >called RIB-network.
> >
> >What could be the reason that a noarch package was not rebuilt for
> >newer release? It's just a bunch of files...
>
> dia-gnomeDIAicons specifically appears to be in some sort of weird
> state. No builds appear to have been *attempted* since F21.
>
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=13728
It seems nothing is intrinsically wrong with the package.
I rebuilt it in rawhide, to reduce the list of stale packages.
> Also it has a source rpm checked into dist-git. :P
Most likely because the sources were not in the cache, so somebody
committed them to dist-git instead.