-----Original Message----- From: fedora-devel-list-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:fedora-devel-list-bounces@redhat.com]On Behalf Of Jesse Keating Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 11:47 AM To: fedora-devel-list@redhat.com Subject: RE: Proposed removal of packages with long-standing FTBFS failures
On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 08:42 -0700, Shawn Starr wrote:
/me worries what releng is doing...
releng is preventing a future where we have to rebuild a large swath of packages for some emergency or another, only to find that a good chunk of them fail to rebuild. This is a bad situation to be in.
Often times, the only way to get somebody to work on these is to threaten to remove them from the distro. It brings out the people who actually care about the packages so that they can work on making them build again.
I guess that's a good thing seeing, It's gotten me to care about some of those now :-)
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