Re: RFC: drop FTBFS packages? (was: Re: Massrebuild status)

(trying with a different topic) On 26.04.2009 14:13, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > > On 12.04.2009 14:43, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >> >> On 31.03.2009 08:01, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > [...] >> >> Here is a list of packages that sill haven't been rebuild: > > 502     2009-04-07      2009-04-07      snes9x > 503     2009-04-07      2009-04-07      raine > 505     2009-04-07      2009-04-07      sidplay > 508     2009-04-07      2009-04-07      streamri > 510     2009-04-07      2009-04-07      subtitle > 514     2009-04-07      2009-04-07      streamdv > 516     2009-04-07      2009-04-07      flvtool2 > 519     2009-04-07      2009-04-11      vdr-mp3 > [...] >> >> Just to point out the obvious: A few bugs are five days > > (19 days now) >> >> old and the maintainer didn't even replied yet. > > > I'd wondering if we in should drop the packages from the devel repo that > remain unfixed in one or two weeks from now; of course we would need to > announce that in the bug report a few days before we actually do it. And > we'd need to check if the packages we drop are needed by other packages > in the repo. > > Options? Nobody? Should I take that as agreement or disagreement to "let's drop what doesn't build anymore" idea?