On 22. 09. 19 14:37, Till Hofmann wrote:
Hi all,
So I've just been notified that tolua++ has been retired, which is a dependency of one of my packages (fawkes). BZ: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1736911
I've closed this bug because it "was already retired", not because of that bug.
The package was actually retired more than a month ago in here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1676145#c12
Based on this rule:
"7. A week before the mass branching, any packages which still have open FTBFS bugs from the previous release will be retired."
To put it differently, the guidelines were completely ignored. The package was retired 6 days after the initial FTBFS bug, without any announcement.
No, they were not ignored at all.
The comment "your package has not been built successfully in 31. Action is required from you" isn't helping either, as the package has long been retired at that time.
Yes, that's why I closed the bugzilla. See https://pagure.io/releng/issue/8478
So can we please make sure that guidelines apply to everybody, also and especially to scripts?
They do.