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[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Wednesday, 25 March 2009 at 20:36, Alex Lancaster wrote:
> >>>>> "NM" == Nicolas Mailhot  writes:
> 
> NM> Le Mer 25 mars 2009 11:29, Rawhide Report a écrit :
> 
> >> mapnik-0.5.2-0.12.svn780.fc11
> >> -----------------------------
> >> * Tue Mar 24 2009 Alex Lancaster <alexlan[AT] fedoraproject org> -
> 
> >> - Fix font Requires: dejavu-fonts-compat and macro
> 
> NM> Why the hell is a dep on this added now? Is the package name,
> NM> description, the pages of wiki help and months of repeated bugzilla
> NM> tickets and information mails not sufficient to make clear THIS SHOULD
> NM> NOT BE DONE?
> 
> The broken deps that made mapnik completely uninstallable (it had
> "Requires: dejavu-fonts-sans") needed to be fixed quickly for the
> f11-beta by rel-eng (because of closed ACLs).  I'm not the primary
> maintainer of the package (who is non-responsive) and hence probably
> not on the bugzilla tickets.

If the maintainer is non-responsive then the appropriate procedure[1] should
be initiated to take the package over.

Regards,
R.

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Policy_for_nonresponsive_package_maintainers

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