dh-make broken deps for 3 releases (was: F-17 Branched report: 20120325 changes)

[Kalev Lember]

On 03/25/2012 02:44 PM, Fedora Branched Report wrote:
> Broken deps for i386
> ----------------------------------------------------------
[snip]
> [dh-make]
> 	dh-make-0.55-4.fc17.noarch requires debhelper

For the past 17 months, each rawhide report has had broken dh-make deps.
The package was imported 21 Oct 2010 depending on a non-existing
"debhelper" package and has been broken ever since.

We have the orphan removal process where releng purges orphaned packages
and those that have failed to build for 2 Fedora releases. But
what about packages with broken deps? Can these stay in the distro
forever, even though they are impossible to install and thus unusable?

Original package review:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=591192

Open bug about the broken dep:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=716298

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Kalev