Adam Williamson wrote:
> OTOH, it's not reasonable to dictate to the person maintaining a Fedora
> package whether they should think that's a reasonable use of their time
> or not. The current maintainers of Bottles decided they trust the
> upstream developers to distribute their software 'properly' and thus
> didn't want to dedicate their time to maintaining the package any more;
> that's entirely their decision to make.
Sure, but they should not be allowed to directly retire the package in such
a case, only to orphan it.
> Of course, it should still be the case that someone who still sees
> value in distribution packaging of bottles can take the package over if
> they want to, as Pete Walter has already asked to do.
Which is why the package must be orphaned, not retired.
IMHO, retiring a Fedora package in favor of an upstream binary of whatever
kind (Flatpak, Snap, AppImage, RPM, binary tarball, whatever) is a major
disservice to Fedora users and defeats the whole point of having a
distribution to begin with.
Kevin Kofler
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