Dne 11. 02. 19 v 4:33 Jens-Ulrik Petersen napsal(a): > On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 4:27 AM Miro Hrončok <mhron...@redhat.com > <mailto:mhron...@redhat.com>> wrote: > > The following packages are orphaned and will be retired when they > are orphaned for six weeks, unless someone adopts them. If you > know for sure > that the package should be retired, please do so now with a proper > reason: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_remove_a_package_at_end_of_life > > I plan to retire packages that were already announced 3 times next > Monday. > > > Which packages? > > > llvm5.0 jistone, orphan, tstellar > 0 weeks ago > > > This is needed for ARM by ghc:8.4 and > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/GHC_8.4 > > > llvm6.0 orphan, tstellar > 0 weeks ago > > > This is needed on ARM by ghc:8.6. > > > I have to say I am not really enjoying this ongoing aggressive package > retirement process. > If packages are not broken and needed by other packages, then I don't > see why we are hurrying to break things. > I think a better process might be for maintainers orphaning packages > to contact dependent package maintainers directly asking them to take > over the package they want to drop.
The orphaning procedure [1] states: "5. Announce on devel which package you orphaned, so that others have a chance to take over as maintainer." This sounds reasonable to me, close to what you propose. Vít [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Orphaned_package_that_need_new_maintainers#Orphaning_Procedure > > Jens > > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
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