On 09/22/2011 01:11 PM, Kalev Lember wrote: > On 09/22/2011 12:52 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> On 09/22/2011 11:31 AM, Kalev Lember wrote: >>> Depends on how you want to resolve this. If you are going for >>> resurrecting the packages, then fix them up to build again and submit >>> new package review requests. >> >> I have a version of libglfw which is buildable for f16, but ... I cann't >> commit it, because there is no f16 branch in git ;) > [...] >> >> My proposal would be someone with appropriate privileges to add the >> missing libglfw/f16 branch. (Modulo the freeze) this would allow to >> resolve the broken deps issue for f16. > > I am afraid to add it back in f16, it needs a re-review of the package. See: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Orphaned_package_that_need_new_maintainers#Claiming_Ownership_of_a_Deprecated_Package > > After review, you can can request the f16 git branch as usual as per > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_SCM_admin_requests Please understand that nobody forces me to do this. I can easily resort to leaning back and leave resolving issues like these to those people who can't avoid to resolving these issues (Probably rel-eng). >> Still, another question remains: How could dead packages make it into >> rawhide? > > rawhide normally inherits packages from older Fedora releases. When a > package is retired, this is no longer desired and the package should be > blocked in koji to stop the inheritance and to prevent any new > (accidental) builds. > > Blocking the package in koji doesn't happen automatically after retiring > the package in pkgdb. It's something that a koji admin has to do > manually. That's why there are instructions for filing a ticket with the > rel-eng trac at > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/PackageEndOfLife OK, apparently this process doesn't work. Probably it's too bureaucratic. > Apparently the person retiring the package didn't finish the Package End > of Life procedure and didn't have the package blocked in koji, so it's > still getting pulled in to F16 and rawhide composes. OK - Somebody from rel-eng will have to walk these packages through this. Ralf -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
