Hi Miro, Miro Hrončok <mhron...@redhat.com> writes:
> On 25. 01. 22 15:48, Stephen Gallagher wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 6:43 AM Miro Hrončok <mhron...@redhat.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> during the Fedora 34 development cycle a year ago, I've reported the >>> following >>> buzgillas about packages that don't install: >>> >>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?bug_status=ASSIGNED&f1=blocked&f2=blocked&f3=blocked&list_id=12391194&o1=substring&o2=substring&o3=substring&product=Fedora&query_format=advanced&v1=F34FailsToInstall&v2=F35FailsToInstall&v3=F36FailsToInstall >>> >>> They were set to ASSIGNED by their maintainers but since then, they still >>> don't >>> install on Fedora 34, Fedora 35 or Fedora 36. >>> >>> I see no point in keeping such packages in the repositories, yet the policy >>> does not currently allow to do anything other than keep them. >>> >>> Should I take some steps, or do we keep building and shipping the broken >>> packages forever? >> >> Wouldn't this fit under the non-responsive maintainer policy? > > Well, the obvious problem with that approach is that the packagers are > otherwise active (at least the majority of them): > > Fabian Affolter (5 bugzillas) > Dan Horák (4 bugzillas) > Peter Robinson, Rust SIG, Mukundan Ragavan... > > And the non-responsive maintainer policy kinda assumes the maintainers are > generally not interested / responsive. In that case I would suggest that we draft a policy comparable to how we handle FTBFS packages, as non-installable packages are about as useful as those that cannot be build (at least for the end user they might be actually more harmful). Cheers, Dan _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
