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List:       opensuse-packaging
Subject:    Re: [opensuse-packaging] Non-building packages in Science and Education to be removed
From:       Jan Engelhardt <jengelh () inai ! de>
Date:       2019-01-04 14:33:37
Message-ID: nycvar.YFH.7.76.1901041532220.32211 () n3 ! vanv ! qr
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On Friday 2018-12-28 22:17, Lars Vogdt wrote:
>On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 10:27:09 -0500 Todd Rme wrote:
>> Currently there are a large number of unmaintained packages that fail
>> to build in the Science and Education repositories.  They haven't been
>> updated in years and fail to build on at least Tumbleweed, and in many
>> cases other releases as well.
>> 
>> There was recently a request to remove these.  I will deny the
>> requests in order to give people a chance to fix the packages.  Anyone
>> interested in any of these packages please fix them in the next 4
>> weeks.  Any packages that are still not working on Monday, January 7
>> will be removed.  Here is a list of failing packages:
>
>Can you please explain why you want to delete packages that:
>* are already build disabled - and should not harm anything?

Moreover, having packages visible in `osc se --pa gap` means a potential
contributor will not need to start spec files from scratch again  — which is
what would otherwise happen if we were to delete build-disabled packages from
develprjs now).

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