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

[Christopher Stone]

On 11/25/06, Michael Schwendt <bugs.michael at gmx.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Nov 2006 07:11:15 -0800, Christopher Stone wrote:
>
> > > 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?
>
> Breakage in Extras is of interest to us, since usually it can be fixed
> with updates, rebuilds, and so on. If help from Core/Legacy is needed,
> bugzilla is the place where to ask for that.
>
> What to report where is just a matter of running a different report
> script.

Okay here is the problem I see from my perspective:

Every single day I see this report come in, and every single day I do
not see any of my packages listed.

- This is tedious, I do not want to have to read a report every day to
see if any of my packages are broken.  Instead I should be notified
via e-mail or bugzilla about breakage of my package.

- Because after 100s report readings I have never seen any of my
packages being broken, I tend to want to stop reading the reports.
I'm sure others feel the same way.  Eventually over time the number of
people who actually read these reports diminishes thus reducing the
effectiveness of the report.

- Some packages in the report cannot be fixed or are simply ignored
because the breakage exists in legacy.  There needs to be a way to
blacklist these packages from showing up in the report or else send
them to another interested party such as fedora-legacy

While I agree this is useful information for Fedora Extras, perhaps it
would be better to email this list on a weekly basis instead of daily,
and email the actual maintainers on a daily basis instead, or even
come up with a sophisticated artificially intelligent automated way to
file bugzilla reports on these issues.

Just my (often ignored) opinion.