On Thu, 2019-08-15 at 09:33 +0200, Miro Hrončok wrote: > On 15. 08. 19 7:39, Vít Ondruch wrote: > > Of course you might consider this special case, but apparently all the > > other people who speak up had different special cases. > > "special cases aren't special enough to break the rules" > > I still think that if somebody would need to keep package unretired for 1.5+ > years, they have options: > > - let it be retired, unretire, retag (as in: "I don't give a damn") > - request an exception with proper reasons (as in: "I have proper reasons") > > Just being able to let the package rot for 3+ releases is not good enough reason > IMHO. Or just fix it so it damn well builds. Even if *you* don't need to use it. I mean, is it so hard? I get *itchy* if I have an FTBFS bug on one of my packages for three days. I can't imagine letting one sit there for six months! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx