On Tue, 2022-03-08 at 01:41 +0100, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > Michael Catanzaro wrote: > > The maintainer is unwilling to retire them. > > > > I think we should ask FESCo to force them to be retired. It's > > confusing > > to have ancient versions of the packages in the distro, and they will > > stick around forever if not. > > I do not see why we would want to force removing working, maintained > packages from the distribution. That is a major disservice to users and > basically a "screw you" to the maintainer. Whom does that help? > > GLib 1 and GTK+ 1 are compatibility libraries. It is their whole > purpose to > "stick around forever", at least as long as somebody is willing to > maintain > them. They are needed to keep legacy applications working. > > If FESCo wants to get involved at all (I do not really see any need for > them > to intervene in the first place), I ask FESCo to affirm that a > compatibility > library can remain in the distribution as long as it is maintained and > to > ask people to refrain from posting unhelpful threads such as this one. > > Nobody is asking you to maintain those packages, so I do not see why > you > need to care at all about their existence. Quote from the first email of this thread "any of these packages is needed ? or haven't replacement ? " > Kevin Kofler > _______________________________________________ > 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 -- Sérgio M. B. _______________________________________________ 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
