Michael Schwendt schrieb: > On Sat, 25 Nov 2006 06:12:08 -0800, Christopher Stone wrote: >> On 11/24/06, Alain PORTAL wrote: >>>> Broken packages in fedora-extras-4-ppc: >>>> plague-0.4.4.1-2.fc4.noarch requires createrepo >= 0:0.4.3 >>> How long whe have to endure these messages? >>> That been going on for more than 8 months... >>> Haven't we had about enough of this? >>> If there is no packager, orphan it! >> Personally I don't see any point in flooding the mailing lists each >> and every day with this stuff. If you already have the maintainers >> e-mail addresses then use those, don't spam everyone else on the >> list.... > Well, I think you misunderstood what Alain tried to point out. There are > packages in FE which are broken for a very long time. Meanwhile, FC3 and > FC4 have been transferred to Fedora Legacy, and since not even FESCO cares > about this, they remain broken. It looks like FE3 and FE4 will soon be dropped quite soon. Some details at http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SteeringCommittee/Meeting-20061122 (search for the first occurrence of FE3). More will follow in a mail from bpepple -- he wanted to work out the details and post a RFC to f-e-l/f-maintainers. BTW, FESCo has to set priorities, too. The above problem (and all those packagers which have broken deps for quite some time) really annoys me a lot (and they make the reports quite useless because they are so long that probably nobody reads them anymore) -- but I and FESCo can't do everything alone (FESCo members do their FESCo work in their spare time, too) and there are IMHO things on the FESCo todo-list that are more important currently. I'd really like it if someone that cares (in an ideal world: the QA-Sig) and has some spare cycles just would step up and fix all those stuff that easily fixable -- this policy allow that: http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/Policy/WhoIsAllowedToModifyWhichPackages The above problem is not easily fixable. My vote is to simply ship a update createrepo in Extras or ignore it for now as the dists are probably EOL soon. But the real solution is to prevent in the future that a package with broken deps ever hit the repo (that would afaics have prevented this particular problem) . CU thl -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
