[Bug 600249] New: Please consider explicitly documenting end of life applications (and deprecate before removing)

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Summary: Please consider explicitly documenting end of life applications (and deprecate before removing)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=600249

           Summary: Please consider explicitly documenting end of life
                    applications (and deprecate before removing)
           Product: Fedora Documentation
           Version: devel
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: medium
          Priority: low
         Component: release-notes
        AssignedTo: relnotes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
        ReportedBy: andrew.jones11235@xxxxxxxxx
         QAContact: kwade@xxxxxxxxxx
                CC: eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, wb8rcr@xxxxxxxx
    Classification: Fedora


Description of problem:
The Fedora 12 standard for simple backups was "Simple Backup", and in Fedora 13
it became Deja Dup.  

The release notes for Fedora 13 mentioned the change of the standard but
offered no advice on transitioning from one to the other.  I can live with
that.

However it was not until I installed Fedora 13 that I realized that "Simple
Backup" was no longer in the repository.

Suddenly I had half a Terabyte of backup data that was unusable.  This
situation was exacerbated by the fact that I installed Fedora 13 after a
catastrophic disk failure and was relying on my backups to become productive
again.

I worked around that problem and later I was shown where to find Simple Backup
on Koji so I do not need anything in the short term.

I do, however, respectfully request that in future when replacing one solution
with another you allow both to exist in the repositories for 6 months and
document in the release notes and in the Yum/Packagekit data that application X
is deprecated, only there for backwards compatibility, will disappear on the
next release and is replaced by application Y

(This does not just apply to backups, but to any application which is replaced
by another one)

Thanks...

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