Hi all,
what happened to the python twisted framework in EPEL 4? For quite a while I receive broken dependency mails for the package pyicq-t but only for the EL4 branch, where I'm even not a maintainer of. Since I'm not using EL4 I'm not really up to date, but if I remember right the framework was available at least a year ago. Was it silently removed? If so, what should happen to packages which depend on it?
Regards, Stefan
On Sun, 05 Jun 2011 11:25:59 +0200 Stefan Schulze Frielinghaus stefan@seekline.net wrote:
Hi all,
what happened to the python twisted framework in EPEL 4? For quite a while I receive broken dependency mails for the package pyicq-t but only for the EL4 branch, where I'm even not a maintainer of. Since I'm not using EL4 I'm not really up to date, but if I remember right the framework was available at least a year ago. Was it silently removed? If so, what should happen to packages which depend on it?
There isn't even a git branch for python-twisted-core for el4 so I'd be surprised if it ever existed there.
Unless someone wants to build python-twisted-* for el4 and look after it for the last nine months or so of its life, it would probably make more sense to pull dependent packages from the repo.
If someone actually does want to build python-twisted-* for el4, I have some packages here that may be a good base:
http://mirror.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/bittorrent/Twisted/RHEL-4/
I don't want to do it myself though.
Paul.
On So, 2011-06-05 at 11:28 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
On Sun, 05 Jun 2011 11:25:59 +0200 Stefan Schulze Frielinghaus stefan@seekline.net wrote:
Hi all,
what happened to the python twisted framework in EPEL 4? For quite a while I receive broken dependency mails for the package pyicq-t but only for the EL4 branch, where I'm even not a maintainer of. Since I'm not using EL4 I'm not really up to date, but if I remember right the framework was available at least a year ago. Was it silently removed? If so, what should happen to packages which depend on it?
There isn't even a git branch for python-twisted-core for el4 so I'd be surprised if it ever existed there.
Your right but then I don't know why I received broken dependency mails for the last couple of weeks/months but not, lets say, a year ago. The package pyicq-t for EL4 has not changed since 2009 but I receive the broken dependency mails only since a couple of weeks/months and not since 2009. This is something which confuses me: If python-twisted-* never existed for EL4, then pyicq-t should have never made it into EL4 because of the dependency.
If someone actually does want to build python-twisted-* for el4, I have some packages here that may be a good base:
http://mirror.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/bittorrent/Twisted/RHEL-4/
I don't want to do it myself though.
Me neither ;-) I'm not interested in EL4 just concerned about the broken dependency mails I received so far.
Regards, Stefan
On Sun, 05 Jun 2011 12:57:26 +0200 Stefan Schulze Frielinghaus stefan@seekline.net wrote:
On So, 2011-06-05 at 11:28 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
On Sun, 05 Jun 2011 11:25:59 +0200 Stefan Schulze Frielinghaus stefan@seekline.net wrote:
Hi all,
what happened to the python twisted framework in EPEL 4? For quite a while I receive broken dependency mails for the package pyicq-t but only for the EL4 branch, where I'm even not a maintainer of. Since I'm not using EL4 I'm not really up to date, but if I remember right the framework was available at least a year ago. Was it silently removed? If so, what should happen to packages which depend on it?
There isn't even a git branch for python-twisted-core for el4 so I'd be surprised if it ever existed there.
Your right but then I don't know why I received broken dependency mails for the last couple of weeks/months but not, lets say, a year ago. The package pyicq-t for EL4 has not changed since 2009 but I receive the broken dependency mails only since a couple of weeks/months and not since 2009.
That's probably because broken dependency mails were only generated intermittently up until the last few months.
This is something which confuses me: If python-twisted-* never existed for EL4, then pyicq-t should have never made it into EL4 because of the dependency.
True, but there's no process enforcing this other than the maintainers checking that their packages are installable; I don't think there's an AutoQA process for EPEL as yet.
Paul.
On Sun, 05 Jun 2011 12:57:26 +0200 Stefan Schulze Frielinghaus stefan@seekline.net wrote:
Your right but then I don't know why I received broken dependency mails for the last couple of weeks/months but not, lets say, a year ago. The package pyicq-t for EL4 has not changed since 2009 but I receive the broken dependency mails only since a couple of weeks/months and not since 2009. This is something which confuses me: If python-twisted-* never existed for EL4, then pyicq-t should have never made it into EL4 because of the dependency.
Sadly, there's nothing stopping it currently... the automated broken deps reports only got setup a month or so ago. I'm sure it had the broken dep the entire time, just no one noticed. ;(
If you want to retire it, please follow the end of life process and file a rel-eng ticket to remove it from the repos. ;(
kevin
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