On Sunday, 25 בMarch 2012 20:01:37 Kalev Lember wrote:
On 03/25/2012 02:44 PM, Fedora Branched Report wrote:
> Broken deps for i386
> ----------------------------------------------------------
[snip]
> [dh-make]
> dh-make-0.55-4.fc17.noarch requires debhelper
For the past 17 months, each rawhide report has had broken dh-make deps.
The package was imported 21 Oct 2010 depending on a non-existing
"debhelper" package and has been broken ever since.
Regretfully, you are correct. What's not so clear is how can we *fix*
this instead of abolishing all this package chain:
* IMO, it's important to have Debian packaging tools for Fedora so it
can be used as a more complete development platform:
- Currently, there's no problem building rpm's and yum repos on Debian
as a development platform, but not the other way around
- This means that a Debian/Ubuntu workstation can build both .deb and RPM
packages, and we cannot use Fedora for a similar role.
* As I mentioned on some of these bug-reports, I'm willing to maintain
all these packages (see below).
However, I wasn't the one submitting the BR, nor the reviewer.
What process should I follow to make this happen?
* The following dependency tree would help clarify the situation:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=591332
- Original packager of all these: Jeroen van Meeuwen
Long time the following RR are without any response from him.
(some of the reviewers seem also to lose interest)
- #591332 - debconf - Debian configuration management system
Reviewer: Miroslav Suchý
- #591389 - po-debconf - Tool for managing templates file translations
Reviewer: Christoph Wickert
- #591190 - debhelper - Helper programs for debian/rules
Reviewer: Chen Lei
- #591192 - dh-make - Tool that converts source archives into Debian
Reviewer: Miroslav Suchý (acked, but without blocker #591190)
- #591388 - pbuilder - Personal package builder for Debian packages
Reviewer: Christoph Wickert
* Is someone brave enough to take-over reviewing all these? (Christoph?)
I'm definitely willing to work though the review and maintain them all
as a unified collection of packages (as the BR in the subject shows,
they are useless otherwise).
We have the orphan removal process where releng purges orphaned
packages
and those that have failed to build for 2 Fedora releases. But
what about packages with broken deps? Can these stay in the distro
forever, even though they are impossible to install and thus unusable?
Original package review:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=591192
Open bug about the broken dep:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=716298
Totally agree with you. If both dh_make and the other RR can be orphaned
(can they?), than we'll just need a brave reviewer to work with me on
these packages in correct dependency order.
Bye,
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