On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 08:17:36PM +0200, Miro Hrončok wrote: > On 11. 10. 21 20:14, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > >On Fri, Oct 08, 2021 at 08:21:51AM +0200, Miroslav Suchý wrote: > >>Dne 07. 10. 21 v 18:23 Miro Hrončok napsal(a): > >>>When are you supposed to run remove-retired-packages? > >>After the upgrade. > >>> > >>>If you run remove-retired-packages after the upgrade, you already > >>>managed to upgrade and nothing is broken, no? > >> > >> > >>Nothing is broken **now**. But it very often broke N+1 or N+2 > >>upgrade. I remember some package broken N+5 upgrade. And then you > >>(or some co-maintainer) hesitated to add it to > >>fedora-obsolete-packages because "it is too old". :) > > > >That's why we should keep packages in f-o-p for much longer than we > >currently do. There was just a thread about Jiri upgrading from F22 > >to a recent release. That procedure would have been made easier if > >f-o-p had more packages. > > > >What exactly is the rationale for constantly trimming the list in f-o-p? > > It is a huge mess to maintain. Hmm, I still don't get it. It's just a list that you append to at the end. Old entries don't need to be touched at all. 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
