On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 12:22:46PM +0200, Michal Sekletar wrote: > On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 1:25 PM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek < > zbyszek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > I agree. Plocate/mlocate is useful technology, but it's not important > > enough to justify maintaining two or three different implementations. > > If we can make plocate cover all bases, and it's faster, I'd just make > > it *the* implementation. Let's get the agreement of mlocate maintainer > > first though. Michal, wdyt? > > > > > Hi everyone, > > I agree that we should transition to the newer (faster and well maintained) > implementation and in the long run we should have only one locate > implementation in the distribution. However, I think we should have some > transition period (e.g. two Fedora release cycles), during which both > packages will be present. Introducing alternatives scaffolding seems like > an overkill for something that is going away in a year, hence plain > Conflits: tag would be enough. As for maintenance, I think that having an > older (mlocate) package available for a year or so while we iron out > potential compat issues or bugs shouldn't add too much work. > > Zbigniew, please take plocate through the review process and once it is > included in the distro I am willing to take up (co)maintenance of the > package. I updated the .spec file in the review request https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1931141, but I can't review my own work ;) Zbyszek _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
