Proposed package blocking due to FTBFS

[Jeffrey Fearn]

Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 12/07/2010 06:41 AM, Matt Domsch wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 03:35:35PM +1000, Jeffrey Fearn wrote:
>>> Matt Domsch wrote:
>>>> I would like to propose blocking packages at the F15 alpha compose
>>>> point if they have not resolved their FTBFS from F14 or earlier.  The
>>>> lists may be broken down by when they last did build.  With 3
>>>> exceptions, these 110 bugs are all still in NEW state as well, so they
>>>> haven't had much maintainer love in quite some time (6-18 months).
>>>>
>>>> I trust module-init-tools will get resolved with an impending upstream
>>>> release.  Not like that can go unfixed forever. :-)
>>>>
>>>> perl-Makefile-Parser-0.211-3.fc14 [u'631098 NEW'] (build/make) nb,nb,perl-sig
>>> Isn't the real bug here that koji is allowing Auto Install to run?
>>>
>>> Koji should be exporting:
>>>
>>> export PERL_EXTUTILS_AUTOINSTALL="--skipdeps"
>> Perhaps- but not Koji - mock.
> No. rpm.specs are supposed to be independent of the context they are 
> being built in (... koji, mock, plain rpmbuild or whatever).
> 
> I.e. if at all, then it should be rpm which sets something of this kind 
> (I am not proposing it to do so.)
> 
> ATM, packages need to take precautions that autoinstall doesn't run by 
> themselves.

Form over function arguments seem to rule Fedora, which is probably why 
I find working in it so utterly frustrating.

Anyway I think the best thing for me to do is stop being a package 
maintainer and get off the devel list, then I never have to spend my 
time on it again ... which sounds wonderful!

Cheers, Jeff.