The "Summary - Broken dependencies" emails.

[Michael J. Knox]

Michael A. Peters wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 08:03 +1200, Michael J. Knox wrote:
> 
>>Should bugs be filed against the packages with broken dependencies? I 
>>see the same packages appearing and wonder if a bug report or two would 
>>help get the package owners fixing the issues.
> 
> 
> I believe they get an e-mail with each one.
> At least when I've had packages and the deps broke, I got an e-mail.

Good to know

> In devel branch, sometimes fixing a package isn't so easy because devel
> branch has changed a version of a build dependency that breaks the
> build, or it doesn't build with the cflags, or it is broken on only one
> arch, and the packager is either waiting for upstream, or working on a
> patch themselves. Then again, sometimes all they need is a bump and
> rebuild.
> 
> I wouldn't worry about broken devel branch packages too much unless it
> is needed by another package. Not until fc6 gets closer anyway.

Sounds good to me.

> Broken fc3/4/5 packages should have bugs filed if they aren't already.

Ok, will do that (hopefully BZ will be in a better state today)

Thanks!

Michael