On Fri, 1 Nov 2019, Miro HronĨok wrote:
>> Yeah, looks like mass rebuild just skips these packages:
>>
https://pagure.io/releng/blob/master/f/scripts/mass-rebuild.py#_125
>>
>> I am wondering if it wouldn't make sense to do a scratch build in that
>> case and proceed with normal FTBS policy [0] if it fails.
>
> The policy will eventually kick in. Recent changes make it so that packages
> that haven't rebuilt for certain number of releases will be retired with
> announcements. Even if releng have never attempted to do so.
>
> That means that if packages with noautobuild fail to build, nobody will
> notice for ~year and than the maintainer have 6 weeks to fix it. \o/
>
> I strongly suggest we should revisit all our noautobuild packages.
For example, for tk, the commit says:
2014-05-21 Added noautobuild, tcl/tk-8.6 cannot be automatically rebuild now
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/tk/c/90966fa?branch=master
But the package was rebuilt couple times in the last 5 years actually.
I'm going to file a PR to remove the noautobuild from tk. Doesn't seem to
have a justification.
Scott