I hope the package gets unretired, because the way things are now, even dnf groupinstall "Audio Production" fails to work.
- Mehdi On Sun, Jan 5, 2020, 15:11 Guido Aulisi <guido.aul...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org >
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