Re: Heads-up: Upcoming retirement of ytop

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On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 9:15 AM Fabio Valentini <decathorpe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> As one of the main maintainers of the Rust stack in Fedora, I propose
> that ytop and its non-shared Rust dependencies (as in, only ytop
> depends on them) are retired.
>
> ytop has been officially deprecated and unmaintained by upstream for
> over a year:
> https://github.com/cjbassi/ytop/commit/5d1e2fd
> Even the upstream developer recommends to use other programs instead.
>
> Due to the statically linked nature of Rust binaries, old ytop builds
> should continue to work, since it links to no shared libraries except
> libc, libm, and libgcc_s. But making sure the package also keeps
> *building* successfully is no longer worth the effort IMO, because it
> involves working around its increasingly outdated dependencies - just
> to keep unmaintained software available as an RPM package. So I intend
> to retire the following packages from rawhide / f36+ if there is no
> opposition to this plan within two weeks:
>
> - rust-ytop
> - rust-platform-dirs (only depended on by ytop)
> - rust-psutil (only depended on by ytop)
> - rust-platforms ((only depended on by psutil)
>

Fine with me. +1

Can we also get rid of this in F35 too?



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