On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It has happened again. :-/ > > | This message is a notice that Fedora 19 is now at end of life. Fedora > | has stopped maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 19. It is > | Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no > | longer maintained. > | > | [...] > > As I found it odd, that again I would receive so many bz mails for old > tickets, initially I had started taking a look at some, but there are too > many packaging issues where the packagers don't respond because they > dislike Fedora's packaging guidelines. > > It's not managable for me to revisit them all. I also cannot jump in and > take over work, such as resolving implicit conflicts between packages. > > Especially for implicit conflicts, a reminder: > > Implicit conflicts are _nasty_ and so far are not detected by package > tools prior to the transaction check. What does that mean? Dependency > solving and downloading of possibly huge packages will be done without > indicating a problem, only to fail before installing the packages. All > the user then can do is to try excluding a package somehow, which may be > difficult if it's pulled in as a dependency. > > I've also noticed a few version upgrade requests with no response from > the package maintainer -> potentially unmaintained Fedora packages. > > This is not encouraging. Yeah I just delete those mails now days. Its just spam "F19 is EOL" is not news that I need to get 1000 times. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
