(1/2) Summary - Broken dependencies in Fedora Extras - 2006-12-11

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 22:57:28 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:

> Rex Dieter wrote:
> 
> > José Matos wrote:
> > 
> >> On Monday 11 December 2006 9:53 pm, Tim Jackson wrote:
> >>> Jose, do you want to go ahead and pick it up? If so, please do.
> >>> Otherwise I guess one of the other maintainers (like me) with stuff
> >>> depending on fltk had better do it...
> >> 
> >>   I see that Rex picked this package for EPEL. Rex, do you want also to
> >>   own
> >> this package for Fedora?
> > 
> > I likely will (eventually), if no one else does, since OpenEXR needs it.
> 
> I guess that's gonna have to be sooner rather than later, since OpenEXR is
> currently busted (and I can't fix koffice without it).
> 
> OK, who was the bozo that yanked fltk from the repo without giving anyone a
> chance to jump in and fix it first?  (:

Several months have been enough.

Further, FE development is in bad shape currently anyway. So, it doesn't
hurt to break a few more dependencies. Either fltk in CVS still rebuilds
fine or does not. In case of the latter, it will need a maintainer rather
sooner than later.