As discussed briefly in the last meeting of FESCO, there are a few open questions with regard to running a script that does automated checking of broken dependencies in Fedora Extras: * How often to run it? Daily? After every push of new builds for Fedora Extras? If Rawhide breaks something how do we become aware of that in time? That is, do we know exactly when new packages are pushed in Rawhide so the script would not run before that? Does it matter? The next run a day later would catch broken deps. Do we, at Fedora Extras, have big interest in knowing quickly when changes in Rawhide break anything in Extras? Reports of broken packages are not worthwhile if rebuilds or fixes won't happen until packagers track and "support" Rawhide or unless a special team at Fedora Extras takes over doing the rebuilds for devel. * Whether to mail a summary of all broken dependencies to fedora-extras-list? So far, during the few public test-runs, a packager received a summary of all broken dependencies for all his broken packages in a single mail. What format should a complete summary, which is posted to fedora-extras-list, have, so it would be useful and readable? Maybe package name version repository e-mail or srcrpm name repository e-mail or package name version sorted by name or sorted by e-mail and grouped by arch? With the full summary at the bottom? Ideas? The complete list of broken packages in Fedora Extras Development is not short. Additionally, if reports for FE3, FE4 and FE Development were squeezed into the same mail, that would decrease readability even more. Create individuals mails for FE3/FE4/FE5? (that almost sounds like it could be merged with the "new packages" report) * How often to mail the packager? Would it be considered an annoyance to mail the packager daily because the script is run every day? Would it be enough to mail once then not repeat the reports for 7-14 days or unless the src.rpm file name changes? [...] The current scripts and their working directory can be found here for anybody who likes to take a look: http://home.arcor.de/ms2002sep/tmp/repoclosure-modified-20060208.tgz -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
