On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobin...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Bill Nottingham <nott...@redhat.com> > wrote: > > Tom Lane (t...@redhat.com) said: > >> Bill Nottingham <nott...@redhat.com> writes: > >> > Before we branch for Fedora 18, as is custom, we will block currently > >> > orphaned packages and packages that have failed to build since Fedora > 16. > >> > >> > The following packages are currently orphaned, or fail to build. > >> > [snip] > >> > >> That list seems seriously incomplete. I'm aware of at least these > >> others that have FTBFS in both F17 and F18 mass rebuilds, as evidenced > >> by their release tags: > > > > It's done by basing off of the F16FTBFS bug, as that's the easiest source > > of info when we haven't done a mass rebuild. > > > > We could include everything with older dist tags. Looking at it, that > would > > be 78 more packages. > > It would be nice to get rid of anything that's FTBFS in non supported > Fedora (ie at least < fc16) and the last time I looked at that there's > a good 150 odd packages that are fc15 or older packages. There's been > two mass rebuilds since then and if the package maintainers haven't > managed to fix them (or they've not been fixed by people like > secondary arches that fix them because they're blocking their builds) > the package maintainer is either AWOL or not doing their job of > maintaining packages or even bothering to check failure emails so it's > likely better off for Fedora that they're scrapped as well. I think in > the F17 cycle I fixed over 100+ of these packages. > It would probably help to keep track of the problem if we could manage to get back the FTBFS bugs. I don't know if there is some work done on this but it would definitely help with this issue. Johannes > > Peter > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel >
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