On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 15:51 -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
(and of course there are packages with no dist tag which fail too)
so
the number of packages we'd consider here isn't huge, but is nonzero.
Please consider adopting a policy regarding packages which continue to
fail to build from source for a given distribution. These packages
need attention, if only because we have disabled F6 buildroots which
would be necessary to build and fix a bug in such a package package in
the F9 release. I agree with Will Woods' suggestion (pardon if I
mis-attribute) that such cutoff point should be the Beta cut of the
next version of the release.
For me, Beta is too late. I'd rather see them go post-alpha, like
immediately post-alpha.
Since these all have ftbfs bugs filed, can't we use those bugs as the
basis of finding non-responsive maintainers, and initiate the orphan
process on these packages, which would get sweeped up in that same
post-alpha, pre-beta timeframe?
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Jesse Keating
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