Proposed removal of packages with long-standing FTBFS failures

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Fri Sep 5 16:15:00 UTC 2008


On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 09:59:15AM -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> Matt Domsch wrote:
>> The following 90 packages have had FTBFS (Fails to Build From Source)
>> failures for several months, some as far back as February 2008.
>
>
>> plplot-5.9.0-1.fc9 [u'449488 ASSIGNED'] (build/make) orion
>
>
> I *am* working on this.  plplot is crazy complex (something like 10  
> different language bindings, multiple output libraries).  I am pretty  
> close to a working version and a working version will be in by the 
> freeze.

I can vouch for this too.  Orion has been asking me questions about
the ocaml subpackage and I've been helping him this week.

Rich.

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