On 07/07/2010 03:21 PM, Marcela Mašláňová wrote: > 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. > They all are being pinged daily - All of these packages are included inside of the broken deps reports. > I suppose packages, which won't be fixed, have: A/ dead upstream, B/ > no-one is using them. Therefore I agree with removal. Well, these packages all carry broken deps and are uninstallable in rawhide. I.e. unless they can be fixed, it's only a matter of whether _we_ kill them or whether rel-eng/FTBS will kill them later. > If they were > essential, they would be probably rewritten and re-added later. > As I wrote earlier, I tried to check whether they are used by Fedora, but unless I have missed something, I haven't found any such case. Ralf -- 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
