On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 3:17 PM Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 9:15 AM Fabio Valentini <decatho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > As one of the main maintainers of the Rust stack in Fedora, I propose
> > that ytop and its non-shared Rust dependencies (as in, only ytop
> > depends on them) are retired.
> >
> > ytop has been officially deprecated and unmaintained by upstream for
> > over a year:
> > https://github.com/cjbassi/ytop/commit/5d1e2fd
> > Even the upstream developer recommends to use other programs instead.
> >
> > Due to the statically linked nature of Rust binaries, old ytop builds
> > should continue to work, since it links to no shared libraries except
> > libc, libm, and libgcc_s. But making sure the package also keeps
> > *building* successfully is no longer worth the effort IMO, because it
> > involves working around its increasingly outdated dependencies - just
> > to keep unmaintained software available as an RPM package. So I intend
> > to retire the following packages from rawhide / f36+ if there is no
> > opposition to this plan within two weeks:
> >
> > - rust-ytop
> > - rust-platform-dirs (only depended on by ytop)
> > - rust-psutil (only depended on by ytop)
> > - rust-platforms ((only depended on by psutil)
> >
>
> Fine with me. +1
>
> Can we also get rid of this in F35 too?

I mean, sure, I don't see a reason not to do this for F35 as well.
But until which point is it possible to retire packages from F35?
Start of final freeze?
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