On 04/04/2014 01:17 PM, Al Dunsmuir wrote: > On Friday, April 4, 2014, 1:42:49 PM, Matthew Milleru wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 11:32:57AM -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote: >>> As far as I am concerned they are very useful. In more detail I am >>> looking mostly at "Broken deps" and "Summaries", with only an occasional >>> peek at a changelog information, but on a number of occasions these >>> messages were crucial for me in disentangling broken dependencies on >>> my rawhide installation and/or filing some packaging bugs. Without that >>> information I would have a much harder time and either would add some >>> spurious junk to bugzilla or would not bother at all. >>>> They seem mostly to just raise the noise. >>> As opposed to what? > >> As opposed to meaningful discussion generated intentionally by human >> collaborators. But it appears that quite a few people do find them >> beneficial, and that's all I was asking. > > Very beneficial. > > Knowing the state of Rawhide (based on changes, and what is known to > be broken) seems like critical information for someone using or > testing on Rawhide. > > Unfortunately, not all changes that affect other packages are > announced in the fedora-announce list. Seeing replies to the "rawhide > report" is usually a heads up that someone broke something. > > Putting these and other script-generated reports elsewhere just makes > it harder for folks to keep track on what is happening. > > Al > Like wise. The one change that might be nice would be to try would be to consolidate the broken deps a bit - just a single note that a package has broken dep in all arches (and listing those deps) rather than repeating three times. It also will not scale if we add more primary architectures. Where is the source for this mail? -- Orion Poplawski Technical Manager 303-415-9701 x222 NWRA/CoRA Division FAX: 303-415-9702 3380 Mitchell Lane orion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Boulder, CO 80301 http://www.cora.nwra.com -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
