Hi,
EOL and Obsoletes were planned as a feature of Modularity. The feature should enable to set shorter/longer life cycles on Modules than the OS release. The initial idea was to set this information in the disgit metadata of a Module. As time went by the requirements have changed.
From my point of view right now it seems that this information should not be a part of the module (disgit, repository metadata). It is prone to human error when we leave this in the hands of a packager. So this would need a review of Engineering to be reliable.
Next is that a lot of 3rd parties like to handle the EOL and Obsoletes of packages/modules by other means, which makes this redundant. Also, as the release cycle of Fedora is so fast, I am not sure this is a necessary feature at all
I spoke to people in the community and I got mixed information/opinions, so I want to open a discussion about this feature. So WDYT? Is this necessary for Fedora? If yes, how should we handle this?
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