Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Mon Jan 18 17:25:44 UTC 2010



On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Bill Nottingham wrote:

> Ugh, this seems like it would just create a lot of make-work for the
> common case where packages *are* maintained. Perhaps only do this
> for packages that appear via some criteria (have not been built, have
> not been committed to, have lots of bugs with no response, etc.), but
> doing it for *every* package seems like overkill.
>

Right - so maybe last check into devel branch since the last release of 
the distro.

If we do that check before the alpha release that should let us track down 
awol maintainers and unmaintained pkgs pretty easily, I think.

thoughts?
-sv



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