[ACTION REQUIRED v3] Retiring packages for F-18

[Johannes Lips]

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> It would be nice to get rid of anything that's FTBFS in non supported
> Fedora (ie at least < fc16) and the last time I looked at that there's
> a good 150 odd packages that are fc15 or older packages. There's been
> two mass rebuilds since then and if the package maintainers haven't
> managed to fix them (or they've not been fixed by people like
> secondary arches that fix them because they're blocking their builds)
> the package maintainer is either AWOL or not doing their job of
> maintaining packages or even bothering to check failure emails so it's
> likely better off for Fedora that they're scrapped as well. I think in
> the F17 cycle I fixed over 100+ of these packages.
>
It would probably help to keep track of the problem if we could manage to
get back the FTBFS bugs.
I don't know if there is some work done on this but it would definitely
help with this issue.

Johannes

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