Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

[Matt Domsch]

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.
> 
> awn-extras-applets-0.3.2.1-8.fc11.src.rpm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511628
> evolution-brutus-1.2.35-2.fc11.src.rpm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511451
> geronimo-specs-1.0-2.M2.fc10.src.rpm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511494
> gmfsk-0.7-0.6.pre1.fc11.src.rpm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511780
> gnome-scan-0.6.2-1.fc11.src.rpm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511591
> Io-language-20071010-10.fc11.src.rpm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511617
> knm_new-fonts-1.1-5.fc11.src.rpm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=555487
> libFoundation-1.1.3-11.fc9.src.rpm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511470
> ohm-0.1.1-9.39.20091215git.fc11.src.rpm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539200
> perl-AnyEvent-XMPP-0.4-1.fc11.src.rpm  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511749
> perl-Class-InsideOut-1.09-2.fc11.src.rpm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539136
> perl-Jemplate-0.23-2.fc11.src.rpm  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=538984
> perl-MooseX-Traits-Attribute-CascadeClear-0.03-2.fc11.src.rpm  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511570
> perl-RRD-Simple-1.43-3.fc9.src.rpm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=464964
> perl-SVN-Mirror-0.75-2.fc11.src.rpm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511770
> perl-SVN-Simple-0.27-7.fc11.src.rpm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511729
> prctl-1.4-5.2.1.src.rpm (last built July 12, 2006, ExclusiveArch ia64)
> python-openhpi-1.1-3.fc11.src.rpm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511675
> qtiplot-0.9-11.fc11.src.rpm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511688 
> recordmydesktop-0.3.8.1-1.fc11.src.rpm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=538931
> skychart-3.0.1.5-6.20081026svn.fc11.src.rpm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539202
> smarteiffel-2.3-2.fc9.src.rpm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511362
> synce-kde-0.9.1-4.fc11.src.rpm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539195
> unifdef-1.171-8.fc11.src.rpm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511553
> widelands-0-0.13.Build13.fc11.src.rpm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511430
> xpilot-ng-4.7.2-16.fc11.src.rpm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511717
> xqilla10-1.0.2-6.fc11.src.rpm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511599
> xqilla-2.1.3-0.6.fc11.src.rpm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511425

Folks, while I appreciate you fixing these packages so they build
again, _please_ do take the time to consider if they are unloved
enough to be orphaned and dropped anyhow.  If it's a leaf node in the
dependency tree, dead upstream, and unresponsive Fedora maintainer, it
should be orphaned and dropped rather than having a little bit of tape
applied to it and sent back into the game...


-- 
Matt Domsch
Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux