Fabio Valentini wrote:
> Given that there's a very long list of affected packages, just
> dropping the package in a few weeks would have disastrous effects on
> Fedora.
> I also see core components of several Editions and Spins on that list,
> so I assume just dropping pcre would also make QA, Release
> Engineering, and various Spin manitainers very sad.
So far, I agree, but:
> I would ask you that instead of retiring the package in a few weeks,
> you go through the "proper process" for changes like this.
> That would probably involve steps similar to these:
>
> - announce an official deprecation with Fedora 37 (Self-Contained
> Change proposal)
> - mark all pcre packages as deprecated
> - help other packagers with porting software to pcre2
> - announce official removal of pcre with Fedora 38 (or 39, or later,
> whenever dropping it would not implode several deliverables of Fedora;
> another Change proposal)
> - actual removal of the package according to schedule laid out in the
> previous step
I do not agree with that process proposal. In fact, I object to the library
deprecation process as a whole, because it actually prevents people willing
to maintain an old library in Fedora from picking up maintenance. Processes
should never block volunteers from doing the work they sign up to do for
free.
Instead, I am going to say the same thing I always say when people want to
retire a package directly: Please just orphan it instead. Then either
somebody else will take care of the package, or it will eventually
automatically get retired. In this case, it is quite likely that it will be
taken up. (In fact, if nobody else does, I will probably have to take it
because kdelibs3 and kdelibs 4 depend on it.)
Kevin Kofler
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