Bill Nottingham (notting(a)redhat.com) said:
> 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.
I'll see about getting the list of other non-building packages and get
bugs filed for them.
Done, new list sent.
Bill