On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 08:13:32 +0000, Tim Jackson wrote: > Rex Dieter wrote: > > > OK, who was the bozo that yanked fltk from the repo without giving anyone a > > chance to jump in and fix it first? (: > > Michael, whilst you did do the right thing in taking fltk out of the > repo as it has been orphaned for quite a while, it would have been great > if you could have dropped a mail to the list if only to say "I've killed > fltk" - it would have saved some time trawling through CVS etc. to > figure out what broke. Or alternatively if you had warned in advance you > were going to do it (and maybe even grepped for BR's, though I > appreciate this takes more of your time), I'm sure someone else with > deps on it would have picked it up, saving the need to take it out at > all. Just something to consider for the future. Thanks. As I understand it, you just volunteered to help with getting rid of orphans in the future. Only with more man-power it would be possible to add further tracking based on e-mail announcements and feedback thereafter. The fact that there are orphans (not just in devel) for many weeks/months without anyone taking care of them is reason to worry. Dropping an rpm from the repo triggers a repoclosure mail to every packager with dependencies on it. This is FE Development. Relax! Here's the full list of orphans which have been removed from the devel repo and disabled in CVS. The latter is done in accordance what FESCO has decided in the past, so it needs more than a half-hearted "make build" to rebuild them: aspell-mi blam buildbot camstream cfs cgi-util cvsplot doctorj ecore edb edje eet embryo evas fltk gdk-pixbuf gfontview gnofract4d gnome-password-generator gnome-themes-extras gnome-yum gourmet gstreamer08-python gtkhtml36 gurlchecker jlint leafpad lcdf-typetools libedit libvisual-plugins linkchecker lostirc luks-tools new nucleo pam_mysql pam_script pitivi polyxmass-common polyxmass-data polyxmass-doc poster python-cvstoys qascade quadkonsole repoml rkhunter roundup rpmDirectoryCheck scim-chinese-standard screem scribus-templates straw system-config-control tetex-fontools v2strip xffm > p.s. I do know that fltk was listed here as orphaned a while back, but > at the time I didn't have any deps on it... There is no need to Cc me on these messages as I'm subscribed here. Thank you. When you added to FE a new package with a dependency on an _orphaned_ package, that would have been the perfect opportunity to de-orphan the package first. -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
