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On Sunday, 25 בMarch 2012 20:01:37 Kalev Lember wrote: > On 03/25/2012 02:44 PM, Fedora Branched Report wrote: > > Broken deps for i386 > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > [snip] > > [dh-make] > > dh-make-0.55-4.fc17.noarch requires debhelper > > For the past 17 months, each rawhide report has had broken dh-make deps. > The package was imported 21 Oct 2010 depending on a non-existing > "debhelper" package and has been broken ever since. Regretfully, you are correct. What's not so clear is how can we *fix* this instead of abolishing all this package chain: * IMO, it's important to have Debian packaging tools for Fedora so it can be used as a more complete development platform: - Currently, there's no problem building rpm's and yum repos on Debian as a development platform, but not the other way around - This means that a Debian/Ubuntu workstation can build both .deb and RPM packages, and we cannot use Fedora for a similar role. * As I mentioned on some of these bug-reports, I'm willing to maintain all these packages (see below). However, I wasn't the one submitting the BR, nor the reviewer. What process should I follow to make this happen? * The following dependency tree would help clarify the situation: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=591332 - Original packager of all these: Jeroen van Meeuwen Long time the following RR are without any response from him. (some of the reviewers seem also to lose interest) - #591332 - debconf - Debian configuration management system Reviewer: Miroslav Suchý - #591389 - po-debconf - Tool for managing templates file translations Reviewer: Christoph Wickert - #591190 - debhelper - Helper programs for debian/rules Reviewer: Chen Lei - #591192 - dh-make - Tool that converts source archives into Debian Reviewer: Miroslav Suchý (acked, but without blocker #591190) - #591388 - pbuilder - Personal package builder for Debian packages Reviewer: Christoph Wickert * Is someone brave enough to take-over reviewing all these? (Christoph?) I'm definitely willing to work though the review and maintain them all as a unified collection of packages (as the BR in the subject shows, they are useless otherwise). > We have the orphan removal process where releng purges orphaned packages > and those that have failed to build for 2 Fedora releases. But > what about packages with broken deps? Can these stay in the distro > forever, even though they are impossible to install and thus unusable? > > Original package review: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=591192 > > Open bug about the broken dep: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=716298 Totally agree with you. If both dh_make and the other RR can be orphaned (can they?), than we'll just need a brave reviewer to work with me on these packages in correct dependency order. Bye, -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 oron@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron Reality must take precedence over public relations, for Mother Nature cannot be fooled. -- R.P. Feynman |
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