Re: Ditch RPM in favor of DPKG

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On Wed, 2019-02-20 at 20:18 +0000, Sérgio Basto wrote:
> On Wed, 2019-02-20 at 16:33 +0100, Dridi Boukelmoune wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 4:30 PM Panu Matilainen <
> > pmatilai@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> > > 
> > > On 2/20/19 5:19 PM, Sérgio Basto wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2019-02-20 at 11:46 +0100, Dridi Boukelmoune wrote:
> > > > > No, that was a bad joke from my end, what I need is proper
> > > > > apt
> > > > > in
> > > > > Fedora to use sbuild.
> > > > 
> > > > If you also do the review-request for apt [1] it would be great
> > > > dh-python also welcomed :) [2]
> > > > The problem is apt is in use by apt-rpm and was not retired yet
> > > > ,
> > > > we
> > > > need use another name , my propose is apt-debian .
> > > 
> > > Just FWIW, the fact that apt-rpm is still in Fedora is against
> > > the
> > > direct recommendation of the last upstream maintainer (as in,
> > > me).
> > > 
> > > It's been dead for ten years and is totally useless in todays
> > > Fedora
> > > with rich dependencies and all. Short of somebody stepping up to
> > > revive
> > > the upstream project, the only responsible action would be
> > > retiring
> > > it.
> > 
> > Oh, if upstream says so, I will look up the procedure to ask for a
> > package to be retired. That's a first for me...
> 
> That is not easy , the current procedure is ask for orphan it , if
> maintainer doesn't reply , we need open a un reponsive process for
> the
> maintainer , wait a lot of time , orphan the package , take the
> package
> and retire it . 

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_remove_a_package_at_end_of_life

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