Am Mittwoch, den 01.03.2006, 10:37 -0700 schrieb Kevin Fenzi: > >>>>> "Thorsten" == Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Thorsten> Hi! we still have a lot of orphans in extras/development/ > Thorsten> that will remain in FE5. For a list see > Thorsten> http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/FC5Status and look > Thorsten> out for packages owned by > Thorsten> "extras-orphan_AT_fedoraproject.org" > > Thorsten> Well what do we want do with them? a) just leave them there > Thorsten> b) check them and remove those that are broken and are not > Thorsten> required by other programs c) rebuild the arch packages, > Thorsten> check them afterwards and remove the broken ones > > Thorsten> I'd suggest c) for arch packages and b) for noarch > Thorsten> packags. Objections? Anyone interested it helping there? > > What definition of "broken" are you using? > Doesn't rebuild? > segfaults on startup/other app specific bug? "segfaults on startup/other, major bugs that pretty much makes the app useless for everyone" would be my definition. > I personally would suggest: > > d) remove all of them that aren't required by other packages. > and then all the remaining ones that are required by other packages > should be taken over by those people who's packages need them. Agreed. But I got the impression that some people thinks it's to late to remove the orphan packages. But if others agree with this idea I'm fine with it. Opinions please! CU thl -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
