Re: Extras packages queued for removal after (non-)rebuild

[Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 freenet de>]

On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 16:54 +0200, Paul Wouters wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> 
> > The deadline for the FE mass rebuild for FC6 was today, 153 packages
> > which are still in the devel (package) repo have not had their
> > needs.rebuild file treated in CVS.
> >
> > Attachments:
> > - not-treated.txt: the 153 packages above
> 
> > Cleanup of packages listed in not-treated.txt from the devel package
> > repo will start today.  Changing their status to orphaned and removing
> > them from comps will be done a bit later
> 
> gaim-otr does not build in mock. It seems the configure script is not
> generated. I cannot reproduce this, as it builds fine on my machines.
> So it is not a lack of maintaining that is causing gaim-otr to have not
> been rebuild. So please don't orphan the package.

Did you read
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2006-August/msg00108.html

Your tarball is mal-packaged, your spec is broken.

Fixing this is straight forward.

Ralf