[Nix-dev] Broken package

[Marc Weber]

On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 07:19:41PM +0200, Pjotr Prins wrote:
> Michael: a broken package is no reason to comment it out. Because of
> late binding nothing will happen. I think the only acceptable
> behaviour is to *fix* it or remove it if it has been pending for too
> long.
> 
> Unfortunately it did go in before it was ready. I can't even remember
> what the patch was for ;-).
> 
> I'd rather have you E-mail me directly in a case like this one, or
> just note it on the mailing list a package is broken.
> 
> Pj.

Maybe we even can mark them as broken by adding a meta tag?
meta = {
  broken = true;
}; ?

Then we could have a look at them periodically to see wether we want to
remove or fix them..

Marc