Re: Orphaned packages looking for new maintainers (anaconda also affected)

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On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 11:47:33AM +0200, Kalev Lember wrote:
> 
> On 4/28/20 22:15, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 08:01:31AM +0200, Dan Čermák wrote:
> > > Sérgio Basto <sergio@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > > 
> > > > On Mon, 2020-04-27 at 12:39 +0200, Miro Hrončok wrote:
> > > > > GConf2
> > > > 
> > > > GConf2 is orphan, why ? no maintainers or a task force to be removed ?
> > > 
> > > GConf2 has been deprecated for well over a decade and afaik unmaintained
> > > for nearly half a decade. Thus: please just remove it from your
> > > dependencies and use gsettings instead (the upstream replacement).
> > > 
> > > Many packages might actually not require it at all: emacs was pulling it
> > > in, but it works just fine without it and with gsettings instead.
> > 
> > Yeah, I am happy to let GConf2 go into the night... thunar-vfs depends
> > on it, but thats just the old vfs layer Thunar used to use kept around
> > for compatibility. It should go also.
> 
> I agree; it's time to let GConf2 and the rest of the GNOME 2 libraries go.
> If anyone disagrees and should pick it up, please only keep it for F33 and
> then retire it in F34, so that we don't keep the old baggage in the distro
> forever.

...if we're talking old baggage, we've not even got rid of the
even older GTK 1.2.x packages yet :-(

Regards,
Daniel
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