Alex Lancaster wrote: > Related to this, it seems that there are still maintainers who appear > to want to lock up their packages even from "provenpackager". As a > concrete example, user "rezso" (I've requested him to re-open them in > private e-mail to no avail) locked down several of his packages such > as: > > http://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/mapserver > http://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/mapnik > http://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/gdal > > These are packages that regularly needs to be rebuilt when sonames are > bumped and frequently lies dormant in a "broken deps" state for weeks > at a time and would benefit being available to provenpackagers to > rebuild. (It's currently broken right now because of the MySQL soname > bump and there's no good reason why it shouldn't be available for > provenpackager to fix it). +1 There's an open ticket at FESCo to look into abuse of provenpackager lockout, I really hope they'll look into this soon. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
