Hello, Ales. On Monday, 25 November 2024 at 16:35, Ales Nezbeda wrote: > I have recently took over maintenance (both in upstream and > downstream) of xmlto package. [...] > Afaik, xmlif is not packaged in fedora (nor other distributions like > Arch) in itself and since it is not really a dependency of xmlto (but > just somewhat related to each other from what I have learned) I don't > know whether anyone actually depends on having xmlif in Fedora - > meaning I don't know whether I should create and maintain new xmlif > package *before* removing it from xmlto.
A quick search at sourcegraph.com suggests nothing actually uses xmlif. So, I'd say: just drop it. If anyone needs it, it can be resurrected as a separate package easily. It's a single C file, so it's trivial to package. One can take some inspiration from the original upstream spec file: https://gitlab.com/esr/xmlif/-/blob/0fb564707bbf020895a8f6b228768270d04ba8b3/xmlif.spec > Secondly, based on xmlif readme in upstream, the xmlto package is > shipping an outdated version of xmlif, which also seems to be breaking > XML language standards. This, *I think* would also mean, that just > shipping up to date xmlif might break something that depends on the > older version. As above. > From my POV, both issues could be resolved by just shipping changes to > rawhide and proactively resolving potential issues, while this change > is limited only to rawhide. [...] I'd say: go for it. Shoot an e-mail here with an actual announcement and date. Or you can even submit a Self-contained Change for this to ensure wide notification (https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/program_management/changes_policy/). Regards, -- Fedora https://fedoraproject.org There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. -- from "Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan -- _______________________________________________ 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
