Re: What to do with packages that fail to install since Fedora 34 but BZs are ASSIGNED?

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Hi Miro,

Miro Hrončok <mhroncok@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On 25. 01. 22 15:48, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 6:43 AM Miro Hrončok <mhroncok@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> during the Fedora 34 development cycle a year ago, I've reported the following
>>> buzgillas about packages that don't install:
>>>
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?bug_status=ASSIGNED&f1=blocked&f2=blocked&f3=blocked&list_id=12391194&o1=substring&o2=substring&o3=substring&product=Fedora&query_format=advanced&v1=F34FailsToInstall&v2=F35FailsToInstall&v3=F36FailsToInstall
>>>
>>> They were set to ASSIGNED by their maintainers but since then, they still don't
>>> install on Fedora 34, Fedora 35 or Fedora 36.
>>>
>>> I see no point in keeping such packages in the repositories, yet the policy
>>> does not currently allow to do anything other than keep them.
>>>
>>> Should I take some steps, or do we keep building and shipping the broken
>>> packages forever?
>> 
>> Wouldn't this fit under the non-responsive maintainer policy?
>
> Well, the obvious problem with that approach is that the packagers are 
> otherwise active (at least the majority of them):
>
> Fabian Affolter (5 bugzillas)
> Dan Horák (4 bugzillas)
> Peter Robinson, Rust SIG, Mukundan Ragavan...
>
> And the non-responsive maintainer policy kinda assumes the maintainers are 
> generally not interested / responsive.

In that case I would suggest that we draft a policy comparable to how we
handle FTBFS packages, as non-installable packages are about as useful
as those that cannot be build (at least for the end user they might be
actually more harmful).


Cheers,

Dan
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