On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 08:17:36PM +0200, Miro Hrončok wrote:
> On 11. 10. 21 20:14, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> >On Fri, Oct 08, 2021 at 08:21:51AM +0200, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
> >>Dne 07. 10. 21 v 18:23 Miro Hrončok napsal(a):
> >>>When are you supposed to run remove-retired-packages?
> >>After the upgrade.
> >>>
> >>>If you run remove-retired-packages after the upgrade, you already
> >>>managed to upgrade and nothing is broken, no?
> >>
> >>
> >>Nothing is broken **now**. But it very often broke N+1 or N+2
> >>upgrade. I remember some package broken N+5 upgrade. And then you
> >>(or some co-maintainer) hesitated to add it to
> >>fedora-obsolete-packages because "it is too old". :)
> >
> >That's why we should keep packages in f-o-p for much longer than we
> >currently do. There was just a thread about Jiri upgrading from F22
> >to a recent release. That procedure would have been made easier if
> >f-o-p had more packages.
> >
> >What exactly is the rationale for constantly trimming the list in f-o-p?
> 
> It is a huge mess to maintain.

Hmm, I still don't get it. It's just a list that you append to at the end.
Old entries don't need to be touched at all.

Zbyszek
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