Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Mon Jan 18 19:51:51 UTC 2010


On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 20:24 +0100, Tomas Mraz wrote:
> So that means that for example for the openoffice.org-dict-cs_CZ package
> I'll get the nag bug report before each and every Fedora release?
> 
> It is definitely not 4. however 1. and 2. apply to it. As this is just a
> czech spelling and hyphenation dictionary which is pretty good one and
> we do not have any alternative anyway I do not think that 2. matters
> much.
> 
> OK, I think my next changelog entry in the .spec will be something
> like: 
> - rebuilding just for the sake of not getting a nonsense bug report
>   opened against the package 

Yet, this package still gets built nearly once a year, sometimes twice a
year, due to changes in the distribution.  You may not be doing the
builds, but the package is getting touched and built.

Can the drama please.

-- 
Jesse Keating
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