On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 05:51:35PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 01:41:30AM +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. > > Could they be renamed "glib1", etc? That would remove any confusion > that they cause with the latest glib, and as Kevin says above they can > then be ignored by people who don't care about them. Or at least the description changed to make it obvious that they aren't-the-library-you-are-looking-for most of the time. Right now glib %description is: GLib is a handy library of utility functions. This C library is designed to solve some portability problems and provide other useful functionality that most programs require. 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
