Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

[Jeff Johnston]

On 15/01/10 01:00 AM, 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.
>
> geronimo-specs-1.0-2.M2.fc10.src.rpm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511494
>

This was a bit of a mess.

This package was last built successfully for F-11.

I have taken ownership of the orphaned package and built it for F-12. 
For F-13, there were numerous upgrades from 1.0-M4 all the way to 1.2. 
Unfortunately, none of these ever built, most were never tagged, and 1.2 
has a number of build dependencies for packages that don't exist 
currently in Fedora.

It's not pretty, but I regressed the F-13 spec file back to the F-12 
version (1.0-3.2.M2) which is the last successful version to build.  I 
have documented what I did and what packages were missing so 1.2 work 
can resume if/when needed.  There is work under-way by akurtakov to try 
and remove the need for the geronimo-specs package altogether.

The package has been built in rawhide and the FTBFS bug 511494 has been 
closed.

-- Jeff J.