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

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Christopher Stone schrieb:
> On 11/26/06, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info> wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>> I'd really like it if someone that cares (in an
>>>> ideal world: the QA-Sig) and has some spare cycles just would step up
>>>> and fix all those stuff that easily fixable -- this policy allow that:
>>>> http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/Policy/WhoIsAllowedToModifyWhichPackages
>>> This doesn't fit too well into your scheme, as it results in some
>>> volunteers breaking stuff, other volunteers trying to fix the breakage.
>>> When the community gets
>> Well, I think we need someone like a QA group to fix things for other
>> people now and then. But the QA Sig could also handle what you outlined
>> above, e.g. somehow put pressure on the contributors so they fix their
>> stuff on their own.
> IIRC, tibbs did this a few months ago on a package that was in the
> report for months and after he launched a rebuild the maintainer came
> on this message list and lambasted tibbs for launching a rebuild.
> tibbs then got upset and said he would never attempt to help out in
> this regard again.

Yeah, I remember.

> I think there was some technical reason why the rebuild should not
> have been done, so there needs to be a way for a developer to say, I
> cannot fix this dependency problem because of some other issue, and
> request QA SIGs to not push rebuilds.

A open bug should be enough as the one that does the update and rebuild
should look at the open bugs before requesting the rebuild.

CU
thl