On 6/30/23 14:00, Vít Ondruch wrote:
>
> Dne 30. 06. 23 v 10:34 Benson Muite napsal(a):
>> There is at present no policy on when and why packages should be
>> deprecated. Have made a proposal to allow deprecation of packages only
>> when they fail to build
>
>
> There is a catch. Packages which are FTBFS cannot be marked as
> deprecated, because there is no way to inject the `Provides:
> deprecated()` there without the build.
>
>
Thanks for the feedback. Python 2 packages went through this because
the eco system no longer supports them. A regular FTBFS for a single
package can be orphaned and retired. If a required dependency does not
build in rawhide, then one cannot add a package that requires it to Fedora.
> Vít
>
>
>> or are a security concern. In other cases,
>> orphaning and retirement should be done. Comments and suggestions for
>> improvement are welcome.
>>
>> This would also likely impact package review guidelines, since there are
>> packages that people may want in Fedora, which build but do not have
>> much upstream activity.
>>
>> 1)
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DeprecationPolicy#Upgrade%2Fcompatibility_impact
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