Peter Robinson (pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx) said: > >> That list seems seriously incomplete. I'm aware of at least these > >> others that have FTBFS in both F17 and F18 mass rebuilds, as evidenced > >> by their release tags: > > > > It's done by basing off of the F16FTBFS bug, as that's the easiest source > > of info when we haven't done a mass rebuild. > > > > We could include everything with older dist tags. Looking at it, that would > > be 78 more packages. > > It would be nice to get rid of anything that's FTBFS in non supported > Fedora (ie at least < fc16) and the last time I looked at that there's > a good 150 odd packages that are fc15 or older packages. There's been > two mass rebuilds since then and if the package maintainers haven't > managed to fix them (or they've not been fixed by people like > secondary arches that fix them because they're blocking their builds) > the package maintainer is either AWOL or not doing their job of > maintaining packages or even bothering to check failure emails so it's > likely better off for Fedora that they're scrapped as well. I think in > the F17 cycle I fixed over 100+ of these packages. I'm OK with being more thorough here, but I can't commit to bringing back the full FTBFS infrastructure myself - I just don't have the time. I'll see about getting the list of other non-building packages and get bugs filed for them. Bill -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
