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=== Friday 5th September 2008 ===

==== Fedora Project ====

FedoraProject:MattDomsch produced a [[http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-September/msg00319.html|list]] of
packages with long-standing FTBFS (Fails To Build From Source) bugs, which were proposed to be removed from the distribution
prior to the Fedora 10 release. None of my packages were on the list, but there were quite a few that looked important,
either in themselves or as dependencies of other important packages.

One of these for instance was `perl-MIME-Lite`, for which [[RedHatBugzilla:449558|Bug #449558]] had remained unfixed
since early June, which turns out to be a dependency of `openoffice.org-devel` and over 500 other packages.
The [[http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-commits/2008-September/msg01842.html|fix]] was trivial:
rawhide's new `rpm` doesn't like constructs like this:
{{{
%check || :
make test
}}}
which is OK because this syntax is only used to provide support for ''really'' old versions of `rpm`
that don't know what a `%check` section is in a spec file.
By ''really'' old I mean even older than the one from Red Hat Linux 9, the oldest release I package perl modules for.
So although I don't own the package, I do have commit access and so I fixed it. The FTBFS bug that is.
There are still plenty of `rpmlint` warnings and spec file cleanups that could be attended to, but I leave that
to the package's actual owner.

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