RFC: Mass rebuild of Fedora Extras before FC5 and how to handle orphaned packges for FC5

Brian Pepple bdpepple at ameritech.net
Sun Jan 15 19:23:00 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 19:59 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Or just sort by name and search for the string "fc4" and look for
> packages, were no newer version with fc5 in the name is around. I found
> Macaulay2, SIMVoleon, cfs, cyrus-imapd, gnome-blog and stopped at that
> point. Those were never rebuild since the release of fc4. 
> Do these packages still work? Are they still up2date? Are they orphaned?
> They probably did fail already during the last mass-rebuild for FC4 --
> if they were not fixed until now then I think it's time to drop them
> now. 

Well, gnome-blog is a no-arch package, and shouldn't need a rebuild due
to gcc.  Though, it could use one to update the dist tag.

/B
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