mails with: Summary - Broken dependencies in Fedora Extras - 2006-08-02

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 15:50:48 -0400, Warren Togami wrote:

> Paul Wouters wrote:
> > On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Fedora Extras repoclosure wrote:
> > 
> >> Subject: Summary - Broken dependencies in Fedora Extras - 2006-08-02
> >>
> >> Summary of broken packages (by owner):
> > 
> > With the frequency of these emails happening, I noticed I've started to ignore
> > these myself (after all, *my* packages are never broken *cough*)
> > 
> > Perhaps it is a better idea to have this script mail the individual package
> > maintainers? (or generate bugzilla reports?)
> > 
> > Paul
> > 
> 
> Agreed, these would be more useful if it manages to annoy the people 
> responsible... although having the list post is useful too.
> 
> Unfortunately it seems that the script doesn't know who the owner is in 
> many cases.

Are you kidding? :-O

The script does mail the package owner. And it knows the owner of every
Extras package if it is listed in CVS owners.list. And it repeats the
personal mail every 14 days as long as the package remains broken.