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

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

(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?

CU
knurd