On Sat, Feb 22, 2025 at 11:06:54AM +0100, Andreas Enge wrote: > Hello Oleg, > > Am Sat, Feb 22, 2025 at 09:28:45AM +0000 schrieb Sharlatan Hellseher: > > Upstream has last time activity in 2019 > > <https://gitlab.com/ambrevar/demlo>, as for me, it's more dead project > > than alive :-). > > Question to the team: Demplo holds a bunch of quite old, never updated > > in upstream list of Golang dependencies, do we have any common sense > > practice to clean up dormant-never-updated projects? > > notice that upstream was also the packager; there is a certain > probability that the package has never been used by anyone else. > Independently of this, we tend to keep unmaintained software as long as > it compiles; I would argue that if updating the dependencies breaks the > compilation, it does not compile any more. So my conclusion would be that > this package can be removed. > > There is a deprecation policy in the manual: > https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Deprecation-Policy.html > > "Packages whose upstream developers have declared as having reached “end > of life” or being unmaintained may be removed; likewise, packages that > have been failing to build for two months or more may be removed." > > To comply with the requirements literally, one would need to remove the > outdated dependencies first, then wait two months and declare the > package as not having been built. I think this is a bit silly and would > argue that we have reached this point - the software is not "declared > (...) unmaintained", but it is unmaintained. > > "If the package being removed is a “leaf” (no other packages depend on it), > it may be removed after a one-month review period of the patch removing it" > > So I would suggest to send this patch to the issue tracker, maybe cc-ing > the packager, and see what happens during the month.
I will note that the package builds (but fails the tests) with gccgo-12 through gccgo-14 (which provide go-1.18). -- Efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il> אפרים פלשנר GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted
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