> See below. > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: fedora-devel-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx >> [mailto:fedora-devel-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Matt Domsch >> Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 11:40 AM >> To: fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx >> Subject: Proposed removal of packages with long-standing >> FTBFS failures >> >> >> 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. >> >> astyle-1.21-6.fc8 [u'433971 ASSIGNED'] (build/make) addutko,mtasaka > > Please don't remove astyle, KDE developers use this to keep coding styles > in a certain format and it's documented on our wiki how to use astyle. If > it doesn't build, I'll co-maintain it. > >> lilypond-2.10.33-1.fc8 [u'434394 ASSIGNED'] (build/make) limb > > Removing this will break any MIDI based apps, you sure that's good? > Especially rosegarden and such which use lilypond for notation. No worries, I fixed it. >> pdsh-2.11-6.fc9 [u'440811 ASSIGNED'] (build/make) kg6fnk > > Please do not remove PDSH this is needed for clusters especially HPC > clusters. > > Pdsh should build just fine, if not I'll co-maintain it. > > /me worries what releng is doing... > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > -- novus ordo absurdum -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
