Hi guys, I am ok with retiring the mailx package so s-nail can become the primary supplier of the mailx command.
On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 1:05 PM Jonathan Wakely <jwak...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Mon, 11 Dec 2023 at 12:03, Jonathan Wakely <jwak...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > On Fri, 8 Dec 2023 at 18:47, Adam Williamson <adamw...@fedoraproject.org> > wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, 2023-12-08 at 10:38 -0800, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > > > I'm definitely in favor. I hit this broken step a while back myself. > ;( > > > > > > > > Hopefully the current maintainers are on board with this? > > > > > > Yeah, honestly, I'm not sure a Change is the right way to go about > > > this, it seems like it could just be handled between maintainers. > > > nforro - who maintains mailx - has not committed to it for two years, > > > but is very active on other packages (adding him to CC). If he is OK > > > with the change, I would think you could just go ahead and do it (have > > > nforro retire mailx) without needing to go through the Change process. > > > > I CC'd him (and tkorbar) on the first mail in this thread, and I only > > started this thread after emailing them directly to discuss it (I > > probably should have mentioned that I'd already run it by them). > > Nikola suggested in that private discussion that retiring mailx was > > probably the way to go, so I started this thread. > > > > > If you file a Change, I think all that will happen is that a lot more > > > bureaucracy will happen before somebody says "hey, we'd better ask > > > nforro about this" anyway. :D > > > > I think he's already on board with the change, and I think everybody > > would be happier to Just Do It without a change proposal. I just > > wanted to start a discussion and make sure the right process was > > followed. > > ... and of course to check that nobody would object, on the grounds > that they need the crufty mailx for some reason. > > > It sounds like I'm not the only person to waste time scratching my > > head at the heirloom-mailx fossil, and so we should just retire it! > -- > _______________________________________________ > 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 > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue >
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