Packages marked as dead

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Thu Oct 12 09:12:50 UTC 2006


Roland McGrath wrote:
>> Looks like you missed the entire mass rebuild process and appeared to be
>> an AWOL maintainer:
>>
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/Schedule/FC6MassRebuild
>>
>> Just un-orphan the package and take it back on again.
> 
> It's a noarch package with nothing to be done.  I guess I missed some step
> I was supposed to take to say that inaction was the only necessary action.

Just being a noarch package doesn't mean that there was no reason to 
rebuild it. One of the goals of the rebuild was to ensure that packages 
still built in mock with the new reduced buildroots, and that applies to 
noarch packages too.

Paul.




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