Proposed removal of packages with long-standing FTBFS failures

[Jon Ciesla]

> 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.

No worries, I fixed it.

>> 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...
>
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