On 09. 08. 19 14:28, Jens-Ulrik Petersen wrote:
On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 9:27 AM Igor Gnatenko <ignatenkobrain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:ignatenkobrain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Well, it was retired because it did not built since F30 mass rebuild…
I went ahead and built it with the testsuite disabled for now: I suppose any
Proven Packager could also have done, but yeah normally it should be done by the
maintainers.
I admit the ball was dropped on this by various people (myself included), and
sorry about that. [1]
The new major upstream release was also a long time coming...
But to me the deeper question is still "why are we proactively breaking the
distro" in this way with package retirements by non-maintainers?
Because if we don't, people just gonna ignore FTBFS forever.
Could we have known that gettext will be unretired right away anyway? Probably
yes, but nobody got time / energy / resources to do any kind of analysis of the
FTBFS packages.
Next time, I hope that FTBFS bugs for critical component are actually actively
solved sooner than the retirement happens. We can try to be more aggressive with
the reminders, but I don't know if that helps, because even currently, packages
just switch the Bugzilla to ASSIGNED to stop them.
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