Current FTBFS packages (was Re: [ACTION REQUIRED] Retiring packages for Fedora 21)

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 06:00:05PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 05:23:01PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 03:45:57PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > > Eh. We're constrained by our own policies here, not by anything 
> > > fundamental - LLVM being broken on ARM ought to mean that our ARM 
> > > product is worse, not that everything else is dragged down to the same 
> > > level.
> > 
> > So .. ExcludeArch %{arm} should be added?  I'm not clear what you're
> > saying here.
> 
> ExcludeArch implies that it's acceptable that it doesn't build on ARM 
> and removes the incentive for anyone to fix it. It's not.

There's a process for handling this, which is to create (if required)
a Fedora bug for the package, and then attach it to this tracker:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=F-ExcludeArch-ARM

Then add ExcludeArch to the package, mentioning the particular bug.

I'm going to go ahead and do this now, since otherwise we won't have
hfsplus-tools at all for any user.

Rich.

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