Re: Removing ghostscript-fonts package

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On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 10:54 PM, Samuel Sieb <samuel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 10/06/2017 05:49 AM, Zdenek Dohnal wrote:
>>
>> I am going to retire ghostscript-fonts package in F27 because its fonts
>> are deprecated and replaced by urw-base35-fonts package. Only package
>> which depends on ghostscript-fonts seems to be hylafax+ package, I
>> created bugzilla for it
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1499240 . Does anyone have
>> any objections on its retirement?
>>
>> If there isn't any objections, I'll retire it next Monday.
>
>
> Isn't it too late to retire it for F27?  And unless there's a pressing
> reason to retire it, the usual procedure is for you to orphan it and if no
> one else wants it, it will get retired automatically.

No, that's not necessarily the case, if it's dead upstream and the
maintainer knows that there's reason to just retire it they can do
exactly that. The orphan first tends to be for packages where it's not
necessarily dead and someone might be interested in it.
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