Dne 28.7.2015 v 22:27 Sérgio Basto napsal(a): > On Ter, 2015-07-28 at 16:48 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: >>> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/pyorbit.git/plain/dead.package >>> >>>> last user has been retired, package EOL >>> Error: nothing provides pyorbit(x86-64) >= 2.0.1 needed by gnome-python2-bonobo-2.28.1-16.fc23.x86_64 >>> >>> What's the full story here? Where has this been discussed/announced? >> I'm no longer interested in a response to this inquiry as I've dropped >> ownership of SoundConverter (which depends on gnome-python2-bonobo and some >> other gnome-python2-* packages). >> > As I have thought for some time, I think we should have a team to keep > packages and make migrations like gtk2 to gkt3, libgnome2, pyorbit, > gnome-python2, pyhton2 to python3 , qt3 etc etc > > A team that take care of legacy software, preferably that update it, I > got some in my own gdesklets , rawstudio, gmameui , flumontion , > gtetrinet ... > > In the other day, thread "Investigation of the F23 mass rebuild" "that > nearly 4% of our binary packages haven't rebuilt in F23, is quite > worrisome" , but my question is, should we need rebuild all that is > legacy software ? We have do something or helping project migrate > software or make a group of legacy software, that could be not part of > base of Fedora and mass rebuilds , the mummified software . > > Looking for dependencies of pyorbit : > repoquery --repoid=rawhide --whatrequires pyorbit\* > gnome-python2-bonobo > repoquery --repoid=rawhide --whatrequires gnome-python2\*| wc -l > 76 > > Looks to me, gnome-python2 is deprecated and all software that depends > on should be migrated . > > Other example /usr/share/gnome/help , things for gnome-doc-utils, this > is documentation for Gnome2 ? this isn't used anymore ? isn't ? . > > Anyway, we should look for this classes of software and decide what > todo , instead leaving them without a plan . To have a team is nice idea, but I am a bit skeptic you will find enough volunteers. Anyway, since the cleanup of non-maintained packages, FTBFS packages or packages with broken dependencies is more aggressive then it used to be, this looks to be the plan to me ... Vít -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
