On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 11:34:18 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Ankur Sinha wrote:
> > It does not currently build in f31+ and may require dialogue with
> > upstream to fix.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1735221#c7
> 
> This build failure (at least the one in the logs posted here) is due to 
> broken dependencies in OpenCV at the time of the build and not freemedforms' 
> fault at all.

Sure, but I no longer have the resources to actively look into what
causes the build failures---whatever they may be.


> > Please let me know if you would like to take it up, otherwise I will
> > retire it from Fedora on Friday (27th September). It will get
> > orphaned/retired as part of the FTBFS process otherwise anyway.
> 
> I don't see why you want to explicitly retire the package on such a short 
> notice (1 week) instead of letting the regular processes take care of it.

Because it can only be retired from F31 before Final Freeze---and that
for F31 is on 2019-10-08
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_remove_a_package_at_end_of_life#Procedure

Have I misunderstood this?


> If you want somebody else to pick up the package, please orphan it rather 
> than retiring it, so people at least get 6 weeks to fix it (or, since it 
> also FTBFS, the time frame left in the FTBFS process, whichever is shorter, 
> but this is an F31 FTBFS, so the 6 weeks from the orphaning process will be 
> the shorter deadline).
> 
> We already have retirement processes with pretty short deadlines. Please do 
> not explicitly retire packages even sooner, at least not without a good 
> reason to do so. An FTBFS due to a broken buildroot is no such reason.

Thanks for your input. I always appreciate it. However, I'm the
maintainer here so it would not be wrong to assume that I decide whether
the reason is good enough or not. In this case:

- upstream maintains and supports the package officially on
  Debian---they even provide paid support:
  https://freemedforms.com/en/downloads/root
- upstream no longer makes the development code available (for reasons
  that are not worth discussing here):
  https://freemedforms.com/en/downloads/sources

So, I would prefer it be retired, but fine I've orphaned it and will let
the process retire it eventually.

-- 
Thanks,
Regards,
Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD" (He / Him / His) | 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha
Time zone: Europe/London

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