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

[Gianluca Sforna]

On 11/26/06, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
> 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 orphaned plus the maintainer's account will be withdrawn/canceled?
>

This sounds a little overkill (despite I agree 4 weeks are plenty of
time to fix broken deps).
Wouldn't be enough to remove the offending package from the repo?