On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 01:12:20AM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Miro Hrončok wrote: > > What would you want to do instead? Keep shipping th Fedora 26 package > > forever? > > Since this is actually an MSI blob that is a drop-in replacement for the MSI > blob from WINE upstream (where the version number expected by WINE is > hardcoded and has not changed for years) and that contains PE binaries that > are loaded by WINE, there is no reason why the F26 package would not just > work. The PE binaries are covered by the W32/W64 binary compatibility > guarantees, and the upstream blob being replaced has not changed for years.
Right. So it sounds like the package could be made to "build" very easily. The fact that maintainers could not do this since 2016 is IMO a good reason to retire the package. We need to drop packages which FTBFS, FTI, or have multiple security bugs open. Each package that fails at the mass rebuild sucks up time of other maintainers who will try to figure out what it doesn't build and fix it. Every package that FTI sucks up time of users who try to install the package. Every package that has CVEs without any response means that users (reasonably) have doubts about the overall security of Fedora, and also obscures other issues which might be really important. Over the years Fedora has collected a lot of "cruft". We need to do cleanup sweeps because otherwise the distro becomes a garbage site where it's impossible to do any kind of improvement at scale. Zbyszek _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
