rawhide/F17 broken dependencies: please stop spamming

Rahul Sundaram metherid at gmail.com
Mon Feb 20 18:27:27 UTC 2012


On 02/20/2012 11:39 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>> The package can still be brought back, but now requires a review.
> 
> This is really silly, why can't we just unretire the 2 or 3 packages which 
> were noticed the day they were retired and got an interested maintainer now? 
> (iwidgets was one of them, but I've seen mails about 1 or 2 others here.) 
> The reason a rereview is required for retired packages is because packages 
> tend to bitrot if orphaned for a long time, but this is NOT the situation 
> here. This is just completely pointless red tape making things a PITA for NO 
> reason whatsoever.

File a ticket with FESCo with your proposed change in the policy.

Rahul


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