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

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 17:42 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Michael Schwendt schrieb:
> > On Sat, 25 Nov 2006 07:48:31 -0800, Christopher Stone wrote:
> >[...]
> >> 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
> > I've suggested a black-list several times before without clear
> > feedback. Black-listing packages is like hiding something under the
> > carpet. 
> 
> Agreed, until now I don't see any good reason for a blacklist.

How about FESCO implementing some rules on "taking consequences" from
EVR issues in FE not being taken care about?

E.g. "broken deps > 4weeks", and the package will be automatically
orphaned plus the maintainer's account will be withdrawn/canceled?

Ralf