Proposed removal of packages with long-standing FTBFS failures

[Shawn Starr]

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> [mailto:fedora-devel-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of 
> Jesse Keating
> Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 11:47 AM
> To: fedora-devel-list at redhat.com
> Subject: RE: Proposed removal of packages with long-standing FTBFS
> failures
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 08:42 -0700, Shawn Starr wrote:
> > /me worries what releng is doing...
> 
> releng is preventing a future where we have to rebuild a 
> large swath of
> packages for some emergency or another, only to find that a good chunk
> of them fail to rebuild.  This is a bad situation to be in.
> 
> Often times, the only way to get somebody to work on these is to
> threaten to remove them from the distro.  It brings out the people who
> actually care about the packages so that they can work on making them
> build again.
> 

I guess that's a good thing seeing, It's gotten me to care about some of those now :-)

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