Re: F36 Change: Retired Packages (Self-Contained Change proposal)

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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?

Zbyszek
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