Proposed removal of packages with long-standing FTBFS failures

[Shawn Starr]

See below.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-devel-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:fedora-devel-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Matt Domsch
> Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 11:40 AM
> To: fedora-devel-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Proposed removal of packages with long-standing 
> FTBFS failures
> 
> 
> The following 90 packages have had FTBFS (Fails to Build From Source)
> failures for several months, some as far back as February 2008.
> 
> There are several "trivial" failures which could be addressed easily.
> 8 fail due to unpackaged files
> 6 fail due to patch fuzz
> 1 fails due to open() not passing a mode.
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FTBFS describes the FTBFS process.
> 
> As was proposed to FESCO, packages with unresolved FTBFS bugs
> immediately following the Alpha release will be removed from the
> distribution. Package owners may request that their package _not_ be
> removed provided they are actively working on resolving the FTBFS and
> have a plan to resolve the FTBFS before the Release Candidate
> release.  FESCo has the final say of course, but these are the items
> on my candidate list.  I'd prefer packages get fixed rather than
> removed.  If you are the package owner, or are interested in the
> future of these packages, please investigate these build failures and
> fix them ASAP.
> 
> astyle-1.21-6.fc8 [u'433971 ASSIGNED'] (build/make) addutko,mtasaka

Please don't remove astyle, KDE developers use this to keep coding styles in a certain format and it's documented on our wiki how to use astyle. If it doesn't build, I'll co-maintain it.

> lilypond-2.10.33-1.fc8 [u'434394 ASSIGNED'] (build/make) limb

Removing this will break any MIDI based apps, you sure that's good? Especially rosegarden and such which use lilypond for notation.

> pdsh-2.11-6.fc9 [u'440811 ASSIGNED'] (build/make) kg6fnk

Please do not remove PDSH this is needed for clusters especially HPC clusters.

Pdsh should build just fine, if not I'll co-maintain it. 

/me worries what releng is doing...