On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 02:50:44PM +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: >With Fedora 8 reaching EOL soon, I will stop running Extras repoclosure [1] >for F8 _and_ (!) F9. > >If anybody likes to take over and continue with creating reports for F9, >feel free to get back to me in case there are any questions. Contrary to >some rumours, it's not a process that takes hours. I'll take a look at keeping this going. I've always found the reports to be very useful. >With a distribution getting older, there are more and more updates which >are published for it without enough prior testing. It isn't any fun to see >how some packages with broken dependencies are not being fixed for a long >time, although the package maintainer receives a new report by email >regularly. Among them are updates and upgrades which have been pushed >directly into the "stable" repo. F9 now even contains orphaned packages >which are affected by incompatible dependencies. > >-- >[1] http://mschwendt.fedorapeople.org/extras-repoclosure-modified-latest.tgz Thanks, I'll take a look at this. josh -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
