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

[Orcan Ogetbil]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 5:27 AM, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> (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?
>

+1 (to agreement)

Orcan