Re: Do we need a "No broken deps" Objective?

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On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 09:16:26AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Mon, 2019-11-25 at 13:13 +0100, Fabio Valentini wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> > 
> > I'm a bit concerned about the growing number of broken dependencies in
> > fedora, which leads to non-installable (FTI) and un-buildable (FTBFS)
> > packages. For rawhide [0], I see almost 400 source packages and almost
> > 200 x86_64 packages with broken deps. Especially the number of source
> > packages with broken dependencies has steadily been growing since 29.
> 
> I'd say the main problem here is not a lack of an objective but a lack
> of information. Back when the tooling still worked and we got a daily
> email with a handy list of packages with broken deps, I and Kevin Fenzi
> and others would regularly go through it and fix the ones we could fix,
> occasionally we'd get down to zero, but we always kept on top of it to
> some extent. Now there isn't a handy list any more, we just don't do
> this as much because it's not as easy to find what needs fixing in the
> first place.
> 
> The most useful thing to do here would be to fix up the tooling so we
> get a reliable daily report again.

+1

It's much easier to fix things where there's a handy list of broken
things. :)

kevin

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