On 07/07/2010 01:28 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 07/07/2010 09:37 AM, Marcela Mašláňová wrote: >> On 07/03/2010 08:06 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >>> An update: >>> >>> I filed BZ's on all of those packages which haven't not already been >>> tracked as FTBS. All of these BZs are tagged as "F14Target" rsp. >>> F14FTBFS (which indirectly blocks "F14Target"). >>> >> Thank for filing these bugzillas. > > Welcome. ATM, these are still open: > >>> * BackupPC-3.1.0-14 >>> > wants perl-suidperl (Abandoned by perl-5.12.) >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=611009 > Fedora maintainer and upstream maintainer seem to have difficulties in > understanding the issue and finding a solution. Iain has proposed a > (IMHO) viable work-around, but no conclusions/results so far. > >>> > * perl-DBI-Dumper >>> > Fails to build - Dead upstream. >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=555496 >> FTBS, open since 2010-01-14, no response from maintainer. > >>> > * perl-Data-Alias >>> > Fails to build - Dead upstream. >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=611014 > >>> > * perl-Pugs-Compiler-Rule >>> > Fails to build - Dead upstream. >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=611015 > >>> > * perl-Test-AutoBuild >>> > Fails to build - Dead upstream >>> > (Upstream maintainer: Daniel P. Berrangé, >>> > Fedora maintainer: berrange@xxxxxx ?!?) >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539046 >> FTBS, open since 2009-11-19, no response from maintainer. > > I'd propose to close and abandon the perl-* packages rather "soonish > than later" and not to wait for "Fedora 14". I.e. I'd propose to set > these package's maintainers a firm deadline (say, 1-2 weeks from now) > and then to kill the then remaining perl-modules. > > IMO, these package's maintainers and their upstreams knew about these > packages issues for long enough and had sufficiently often been warned. > > Ralf After I gained so much popularity on fedora-devel, I have no courage to ask rel-eng for another favour like "remove package, which is not mine". But surely ping maintainers to orphan/kill these packages in week or two would be nice. I suppose packages, which won't be fixed, have: A/ dead upstream, B/ no-one is using them. Therefore I agree with removal. If they were essential, they would be probably rewritten and re-added later. Marcela -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl perl-devel mailing list perl-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/perl-devel
