I see these are the issues, which should go to the mass retirement process: https://pagure.io/releng/issue/raw/files/dd7a69aa85bc1774281b673472d010fab41ef84d9045e68c1b5f720b741b6c18-need-rebuild-but-not-failure? Can someone verify if there is more to these?

Looking at the file, these are from the need-rebuild but didn't failed, some reported ambiguities in the file, but mostly others looks ok to block in f43 from koji to me; I'll look into it if I can come up with a way to get this list myself

Note that we don't just want to block them, but run 'fedpkg retire' in them to explain why they were retired.
(and actually that should block them too anyhow).

But I do see some on the list that don't seem right.

These I don't think should be there:

freeipa
gstreamer1-plugin-openh264
pesign
rpminspect
s390utils
tcl
tk

So, perhaps we should try and generate a new list?

For all packages that are in updated needs-rebuild but NOT in failed and NOT excluded by the mass rebuild script (shim / freeipa)
Put in list 'no spec' ones that don't have a .spec file
Put in list 'fails prep' ones that have a spec, but fail 'make prep'
Put in list 'never officially built' ones that have a spec and work with prep, but never officially built

Then we can post the list(s) to devel list / discussion and ask maintainers if they see anything amiss, then we can 'fedpkg retire' all the ones left?

Working on the script, to retrieve the packages list!