On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 06:19:39PM +0000, Peter Robinson wrote:
There hasn't been FTBFS bug reports since Matt stopped doing them
due
to lack of time, the maintainer would have got failed builds for the
mass rebuild and should have investigated as part of "maintaining" the
package.
Is this official? Then it should be announced and mentioned in the wiki:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fails_to_build_from_source
From what I understand from this thread and the wiki, it does not all
fit, because there is for example a F16FTBFS tracker bug, therefore a
bug for aircrack-ng should have existed.
Nevertheless, missing one mail can easily happen, especially when one
was not regularly online at the time of the mass rebuild. Therefore I
still think it should be mandatory to first file a bug before a package
is removed due to FTBFS issues. And as long as it is possible to create
a list of affected packages to remove them, it is only little harder to
report bugs for them first. Something like this would work:
for package in $(cat packages.txt); do bugzilla new --component $package
--product Fedora --version RAWHIDE --summary "$package fails to build
from source "--comment "$package fails to build from source. Please fix
this, otherwise the package is going to be removed on 2012-04-01. See
http://example.com/ for more information"
Btw. I just re-built aircrack-ng.
Regards
Till