On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com> wrote:
> Tom Lane (tgl@redhat.com) said:
>> Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com> writes:
>> > Before we branch for Fedora 18, as is custom, we will block currently
>> > orphaned packages and packages that have failed to build since Fedora 16.
>>
>> > The following packages are currently orphaned, or fail to build.
>> > [snip]
>>
>> That list seems seriously incomplete.  I'm aware of at least these
>> others that have FTBFS in both F17 and F18 mass rebuilds, as evidenced
>> by their release tags:
>
> It's done by basing off of the F16FTBFS bug, as that's the easiest source
> of info when we haven't done a mass rebuild.
>
> We could include everything with older dist tags. Looking at it, that would
> be 78 more packages.

It would be nice to get rid of anything that's FTBFS in non supported
Fedora (ie at least < fc16) and the last time I looked at that there's
a good 150 odd packages that are fc15 or older packages. There's been
two mass rebuilds since then and if the package maintainers haven't
managed to fix them (or they've not been fixed by people like
secondary arches that fix them because they're blocking their builds)
the package maintainer is either AWOL or not doing their job of
maintaining packages or even bothering to check failure emails so it's
likely better off for Fedora that they're scrapped as well. I think in
the F17 cycle I fixed over 100+ of these packages.
It would probably help to keep track of the problem if we could manage to get back the FTBFS bugs.
I don't know if there is some work done on this but it would definitely help with this issue.

Johannes

Peter