On 9/22/19 4:08 PM, Miro Hrončok wrote:
On 22. 09. 19 16:01, Till Hofmann wrote:
So the guidelines allow package retirement without any announcement on
devel. That's certainly unexpected, at least to me. I also don't think
this is a good idea, because maintainers of packages that depend on
the retired package are still clueless until it's too late. Or do they
get a separate notification?
I still find it somewhat inconsistent that basically every rule in the
FTBFS guidelines is about notifying people, but (7) allows retirement
without any prequisites other than being FTBFS for 2 releases -- no
announcement, no orphaning.
Yes, I agree. That's why I've started:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/thread/NKFYAWL4GWYR37C6XA63JMNBZYEM6BI3/
Ah yes, I now remember reading this. I'll add to if I have anything to add.
Apologies for blaming this on the scripts!
Kind regards,
Till
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