Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

[Till Maas]

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:00:50AM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote:
> The following 30 packages, with respective FTBFS bugs, have been open
> since the Fedora 11 time frame, and continue to fail to build.  These
> are the oldest non-building packages in the distribution, everything
> else (over 8800) managed to build for Fedora 12 or newer already.

A more up to date list is available here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=511348&hide_resolved=1

> I'd like to propose the above list be dropped from the distribution,
> prior to Fedora 13 Alpha freeze, unless the package is made to build
> in rawhide before that.

This is in a month (2010-02-16).

Regards
Till
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