[ACTION REQUIRED v3] Retiring packages for F-18

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Wed Jul 25 22:25:16 UTC 2012


Bill Nottingham (notting at redhat.com) said: 
> > 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.
> 
> I'll see about getting the list of other non-building packages and get
> bugs filed for them.

Done, new list sent.

Bill


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