On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 05:15:47PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I've just got 20 bugs auto-filed against packages which I co-maintain
> and that is just for packages starting with the letter 'a'.
>
> A quick check shows that these are all caused by a missing
> BuildRequires on gcc / g++ related to:
>
>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Remove_GCC_from_BuildRoot
>
> I'm not sure if this means that the FTBFS script has been run before
> all the automatic fixing which was planned for this was in place;
> or if this means that the automatic fixing missed many many
> packages, but either way something needs to happen here, the amount
> of work now being pushed onto packagers caused by:
The patches adding BR have already been pushed, but, as shown above,
they missed many cases. I think it's probably best to report the missed
ones to ignatenko.
Zbyszek
Two of my packages (mendafen and gnome-chemistry-utils) failed because
the mass fix added gcc to BR whereas gcc-c++ was required.
Best regards,
Julian