Retirement of package `godot` in EPEL7

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Hi,

I'm the maintainer of the `godot` [0] package in Fedora and EPEL7 (as well as the upstream maintainer).
I'm following the documented procedure [1] to retire this package.

The EPEL7 package has been lagging behind for a while and I don't have time to maintain it (and haven't actively maintained it for years already).

There's a number of security issues [2,3,4,5] reported against it to due several outdated vendored dependencies which were not present or compatible in EPEL7 at the time.

The EPEL7 package currently tracks Godot 3.1.2 released in 2019. The latest upstream release is 4.1.2 (from last month) and will find its way to Fedora, but I'm not interested in the effort of porting it to EPEL7.

Given how outdated the version is, and that Godot is a game development application which needs to stay fairly up to date for compatibility with ever changing target platforms, I expect that nobody is actually using it from EPEL7 and adding it there was a mistake when I first packaged Godot for Fedora.

If there are any users of this package, it's easy to download any Godot version from the Godot website, where the Linux binaries are self-contained and portable and should run fine on any EPEL7 system.

Best regards,

Rémi Verschelde / Akien
Godot Engine Project Maintainer

[0] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/godot
[1] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/epel/epel-policy-retirement/
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2233638
[3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2241257
[4] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2241808
[5] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2243611
[6] https://godotengine.org/download/archive/
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