[ACTION REQUIRED v3] Retiring packages for F-18

[Bill Nottingham]

Bill Nottingham (notting at redhat.com) said: 
> Tom Lane (tgl at redhat.com) said: 
> > Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> writes:
> > > Before we branch for Fedora 18, as is custom, we will block currently
> > > orphaned packages and packages that have failed to build since Fedora 16.
> > 
> > > The following packages are currently orphaned, or fail to build.
> > > [snip]
> > 
> > That list seems seriously incomplete.  I'm aware of at least these
> > others that have FTBFS in both F17 and F18 mass rebuilds, as evidenced
> > by their release tags:
> 
> It's done by basing off of the F16FTBFS bug, as that's the easiest source
> of info when we haven't done a mass rebuild.
> 
> We could include everything with older dist tags. Looking at it, that would
> be 78 more packages.

... although for ones that are attached to F16FTBFS, the maintainers have
had open issues for over a year noting that their package didn't built. For
other packages, they may be less aware, and this would come as more of a
surprise to them.

Bill