Fedora 30 Self-Contained Change proposal: Deprecate Apache Avalon

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https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Deprecate_Apache_Avalon

== Summary ==
Mark Apache Avalon software packages as deprecated.

== Owner ==
* Name: [[User:Mizdebsk|Mikolaj Izdebski]]
* Email: mizdebsk@xxxxxxxxxx

== Detailed Description ==
Apache Avalon project was closed by upstream
<ref>https://avalon.apache.org/</ref> in October 2004 (more than 14
years ago), approximately one
month after it was added to Fedora Core 4 in September 2004.

Apache Avalon software packages are intended to be eventually removed
from Fedora, but are kept in Fedora for some additional, indeterminate
time for various reasons including maintaining backwards
compatibility.  In order to prevent new packages from depending on
these packages, they are marked as deprecated.

As of time of submission of this change proposal, 10 Fedora components
still Require or BuildRequire Apache Avalon packages, therefore
immediate retirement of these packages is not feasible at this point.

== Benefit to Fedora ==
Packages of obsolete Apache Avalon software will be clearly and
explicitly marked as deprecated.  Other packages in Fedora will not be
able to add dependencies on deprecated packages (that includes
Requires, BuildRequires, Recommends, Suggests, etc.).  This applies
both for updates of existing packages and new packages added to
Fedora.  This in turn will make it easier to gradually remove
dependencies on deprecated packages and finally remove deprecated
Apache Avalon software from Fedora.

== Scope ==
* Proposal owners: add special virtual provides
<code>deprecated()</code> to all packages built from
<code>avalon-framework</code> and <code>avalon-logkit</code> source
components.
* Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
* Release engineering: [https://pagure.io/releng/issue/7987 #7987]

== User Experience ==
No change in user experience.  Technically, nothing changes;
deprecated packages work and behave as before.


-- 
Ben Cotton
Fedora Program Manager
TZ=America/Indiana/Indianapolis
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