Re: RFC: Mass rebuild of Fedora Extras before FC5 and how to handle orphaned packges for FC5

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Am Sonntag, den 15.01.2006, 14:23 -0500 schrieb Brian Pepple:
> On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 19:59 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > Or just sort by name and search for the string "fc4" and look for
> > packages, were no newer version with fc5 in the name is around. I found
> > Macaulay2, SIMVoleon, cfs, cyrus-imapd, gnome-blog and stopped at that
> > point. Those were never rebuild since the release of fc4. 
> > Do these packages still work? Are they still up2date? Are they orphaned?
> > They probably did fail already during the last mass-rebuild for FC4 --
> > if they were not fixed until now then I think it's time to drop them
> > now. 
> 
> Well, gnome-blog is a no-arch package, and shouldn't need a rebuild due
> to gcc.

Just my 2 cent: Python, libraries, the buildsystem, cosmic radiation or
probably around 100 other things might have changed in between and cause
the build to fail now.

An, BTW, it IMHO simply looks a bit stupid if there is a package in a
repo that is so old.  
-- 
Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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