Summary - Broken dependencies in Fedora Extras - 2006-11-24

Christopher Stone chris.stone at gmail.com
Sat Nov 25 15:11:15 UTC 2006


On 11/25/06, Michael Schwendt <bugs.michael at gmx.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Nov 2006 06:12:08 -0800, Christopher Stone wrote:
>
> > On 11/24/06, Alain PORTAL wrote:
> > >
> > > > Broken packages in fedora-extras-4-ppc:
>
> > > >     plague-0.4.4.1-2.fc4.noarch  requires  createrepo >= 0:0.4.3
>
> > > How long whe have to endure these messages?
> > > That been going on for more than 8 months...
> > > Haven't we had about enough of this?
> > >
> > > If there is no packager, orphan it!
> >
> > Personally I don't see any point in flooding the mailing lists each
> > and every day with this stuff.  If you already have the maintainers
> > e-mail addresses then use those, don't spam everyone else on the
> > list....
>
> Well, I think you misunderstood what Alain tried to point out. There are
> packages in FE which are broken for a very long time. Meanwhile, FC3 and
> FC4 have been transferred to Fedora Legacy, and since not even FESCO cares
> about this, they remain broken.
>
> Btw, the report could be appended to the build report (although that would
> delay the mail by approximately an hour and would create a not so nice
> dependency between push scripts and broken deps report).
>
> The report is not "spam", and one message per day is far from a flood.
> It is just one report some packagers hate, because it shows where FE sucks
> quite a lot (ABI breakage, e.g.).

Could you have the FC3/4 breakage parts split up into another e-mail
and send that part to a fedora legacy mailing list?




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