On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 04:55:39PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 10:40:06AM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote: > > The following 90 packages have had FTBFS (Fails to Build From Source) > > failures for several months, some as far back as February 2008. > > > > There are several "trivial" failures which could be addressed easily. > > 8 fail due to unpackaged files > > 6 fail due to patch fuzz > > 1 fails due to open() not passing a mode. > > > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FTBFS describes the FTBFS process. > > > > As was proposed to FESCO, packages with unresolved FTBFS bugs > > immediately following the Alpha release will be removed from the > > distribution. Package owners may request that their package _not_ be > > removed provided they are actively working on resolving the FTBFS and > > have a plan to resolve the FTBFS before the Release Candidate > > release. FESCo has the final say of course, but these are the items > > on my candidate list. I'd prefer packages get fixed rather than > > removed. If you are the package owner, or are interested in the > > future of these packages, please investigate these build failures and > > fix them ASAP. > > This list is far from complete - if you want to remove these 90, the > dependancy chain ripple, will entail the removal of tonnes of other > packages which depend on these. > > Any chance you can generate a report which shows the ripple effect > for each proposed package. If something is just a leaf-node, it isn't > very important to worry about, but if something triggers removal > of 50 dependant packages that's pretty damn important to fix. This > info would be useful in prioritizing which builds need fixing most > urgently. With sincere thanks to Seth Vidal, (he wrote a script do show what packages depend on a given package, posted at http://skvidal.fedorapeople.org/misc/pkg-provs-tree-view.py) here is the list of non-leaf-nodes in "priority" order. The number on the left is essentially the number of packages that depend on the named package. Use the above script as: $ python pkg-provs-tree-view.py <package> to get the results of the "what depends on <package>, recursively". e.g. $ python --enablerepo=rawhide pkg-provs-tree-view.py gauche 604 gauche-0.8.13-1.fc9 551 xml-commons-resolver-1.1-1jpp.12 545 perl-MIME-Lite-3.01-6.fc9 138 libdap-3.7.10-2.fc9 62 plplot-5.9.0-1.fc9 46 mx-2.0.6-3 37 ladspa-1.12-9.fc9 34 libopensync-0.36-2.fc9 27 elektra-0.6.10-6.fc9 24 aiksaurus-1.2.1-15.fc6 22 libnc-dap-3.7.0-9.fc9 20 g-wrap-1.9.9-5.fc9 19 bes-3.5.3-3.fc9 17 libfwbuilder-2.1.16-2.fc9 16 brutus-keyring-0.9.0-6.fc8 14 pl-5.6.57-2.fc10 13 lineakd-0.9-5.fc6 10 libzzub-0.2.3-12.fc9 9 itpp-4.0.0-2.fc9 9 guile-gnome-platform-2.15.93-6.fc8 8 erlang-R12B-3.1.fc10 7 mimetic-0.9.3-2.fc8 7 libFoundation-1.1.3-11.fc9 7 gpsim-0.22.0-5.fc8 7 coolkey-1.1.0-6.fc9 5 gtk-sharp-1.0.10-12.fc7 5 fwbuilder-2.1.16-2.fc9 5 dap-freeform_handler-3.7.7-2.fc9 3 R-Matrix-0.999375-4.fc9 3 djvulibre-3.5.20-2.fc9 3 brltty-3.9-2.2.fc9 3 bmpx-0.40.14-5.fc9 2 qtiplot-0.9-8.fc9 2 mosml-2.01-11.fc9 2 lrmi-0.10-4.fc9 2 lilypond-2.10.33-1.fc8 2 dap-hdf4_handler-3.7.7-3.fc9 -- Matt Domsch Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
