[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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