On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 3:17 PM Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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 involves working around its increasingly outdated dependencies - just 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? I mean, sure, I don't see a reason not to do this for F35 as well. But until which point is it possible to retire packages from F35? Start of final freeze? _______________________________________________ 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
