On Mon, 10 Feb 2025 at 09:41, Milan Crha <mc...@redhat.com> wrote: > Hello, > I'd like to orphan the evolution-mapi and openchange packages for the > Fedora 43. Both are for the Microsoft's MAPI protocol. The OpenChange > lost its upstream many years ago. > > The Microsoft released the first version of an Exchange Web Services > (EWS) protocol in 2007, with an intent to replace the MAPI protocol > with it. They announced to disable the EWS protocol for the Exchange > Online (outlook.office365.com) [1] on the first October 2026 (the next > year), that being effectively replaced by the Microsoft Graph API, yet > another new protocol. > > I believe it's time to retire the MAPI protocol in Fedora. I'll wait > with the orphan for one week. In case there is any high demand > (unlikely, from my point of view), I can keep them alive, but otherwise > I'm in favor of stop offering them the same as the Microsoft did.
It might be better off to directly retire them rather than orphan them if no one expresses a requirement for them. > Nothing seems to depend on these packages (`dnf repoquery what-requires > opencahnge` and `dnf repoquery what-requires evolution-mapi` return > nothing apart of the package itself). > > Bye, > Milan > > [1] > https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/exchange/retirement-of-exchange-web-services-in-exchange-online/3924440 > > -- > _______________________________________________ > 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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