Yeah that is one of the only two swami commits in the last 2 years.
Anyway, do we have a Fedora policy to remove software just because
they are old and unmaintained upstream? If there is a happy userbase
and a maintainer willing to take care of the package, what is the big
deal?
It seems fedora don't have a such policy to retire a package unless the maintainer wants to do it. I started this discussion because debian droped gtk+ 1.2 in squeeze and RHEL 6 also dropped gtk+ 1.2 in its package collections. When rhel updates to a new big release, it always drops some deprecated packages compared to the previous release.
Considering fedora 13 just remove ppc arch to secondary arch, it's meaningful for fedora to retire some long dead upstream packages as well. Maybe it's suitable to retire gtk 1.2 in F14 or F15, then remove it to rpmfusion for a compatible reason as python 2.4.
Regards.
Chen Lei
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