On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 15:51 -0500, Matt Domsch wrote: > One thing that came up in today's QA meeting was a desire to remove > packages from the repository that "Fail To Build From Source" [1] for > several months leading up to a Beta release when there is no > resolution in sight. I'm currently doing a rawhide rebuild, and > expect on the order of 350 packages currently in rawhide to fail to > rebuild. There are at least 144 which are known to not rebuild, which > have bugs filed blocking the FTBFS bug [2] (or one of its decendants). > I'll file additional bugs later this week based on my rawhide run. <snip> > Please consider adopting a policy regarding packages which continue to > fail to build from source for a given distribution. These packages > need attention, if only because we have disabled F6 buildroots which > would be necessary to build and fix a bug in such a package package in > the F9 release. I agree with Will Woods' suggestion (pardon if I > mis-attribute) that such cutoff point should be the Beta cut of the > next version of the release. Seem reasonable to me. I'll add it to the schedule for tomorrow. Thanks, /B -- Brian Pepple <bpepple@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BrianPepple gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 810CC15E BD5E 6F9E 8688 E668 8F5B CBDE 326A E936 810C C15E
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