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

[Bill Nottingham]

Christopher Stone (chris.stone at gmail.com) said: 
> 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.
> 
> 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.

Sure, but without such a thing, just fix the damn problem.

Bill