On 03. 01. 20 19:24, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
The dep was provided by non-ntk, which got retired about half a year
ago [1] after FTBFSing since F29 [2].
<SARCASM>Isn't it great</SARCASM> when the policy designed to remove
breakage from the distribution actually CREATES breakage? Retiring packages
with no regards to their reverse dependencies is just broken. It had never
been done that way in the past, before Miro's recent crackdown, because it
simply defeats all common sense.
As a matter of fact, the policy was changed recently, so depending package
maintainers MUST get notifications. The Fedora 31 round was unfortunate, mostly
because nobody got properly notified. I have devoted a great amount of energy
and time to make it better for next rounds. I hope it worked. Only couple of
packages are to be retired, where the maintainers simply don't care anymore with
only one dependent package:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/thread/YRLNHZSV4U47A3MDWIU6MUANVMPEFKD2/
For the F31 crackdown - it's not like a retired package cannot ever be
unretired. It has been more than 8 weeks now, but I gladly re-review a package
that got retired, if new maintainers pop up. Unlike you, I actually believe
packages must be maintained in order to be kept.
The solution is not to stop orphaning/retiring FTBFS packages, the solution is
to get "broken deps" notifications working again:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/thread/RBV3UTSPIGW3TOZJSYTXCZMRV4QBR7X5/
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