Il giorno dom, 05/01/2020 alle 12.21 +0100, Miro Hrončok ha scritto: > On 03. 01. 20 19:24, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > > The dep was provided by non-ntk, which got retired about half a > > > year > > > ago [1] after FTBFSing since F29 [2]. > > > > <SARCASM>Isn't it great</SARCASM> when the policy designed to > > remove > > breakage from the distribution actually CREATES breakage? Retiring > > packages > > with no regards to their reverse dependencies is just broken. It > > had never > > been done that way in the past, before Miro's recent crackdown, > > because it > > simply defeats all common sense. > > As a matter of fact, the policy was changed recently, so depending > package > maintainers MUST get notifications. The Fedora 31 round was > unfortunate, mostly > because nobody got properly notified. I have devoted a great amount > of energy > and time to make it better for next rounds. I hope it worked. Only > couple of > packages are to be retired, where the maintainers simply don't care > anymore with > only one dependent package: > > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel-annou...@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/YRLNHZSV4U47A3MDWIU6MUANVMPEFKD2/ > > For the F31 crackdown - it's not like a retired package cannot ever > be > unretired. It has been more than 8 weeks now, but I gladly re-review > a package > that got retired, if new maintainers pop up. Unlike you, I actually > believe > packages must be maintained in order to be kept.
I'm working for unretiring non-ntk, I think I can file a new review request in one week, as soon as I come back home; I'm already working on it. > The solution is not to stop orphaning/retiring FTBFS packages, the > solution is > to get "broken deps" notifications working again: > > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/RBV3UTSPIGW3TOZJSYTXCZMRV4QBR7X5/ Ciao Guido FAS: tartina
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