> > I am not sure if other agree on that approach or not. I do agree. If a packager wants to do it he shouldn't be discouraged (nor encouraged...). > No. I'm not in favour of this approach. IMO, it's actually what has kept > Debian back as a distro. They have *way* too much legacy hanging around > them which makes build times and build sizes insanely huge. I know I've I don't see that as an issue for fedora extras. The buildsys is rarely fully used. For the build size I don't know. Maybe it delays syncing to the mirrors, maybe it eats too much disk? However I guess it isn't due to old apps. > fixed bugs on a few packages I package for FE on z88dk (especially) and > have submitted them to the authors. However, doing this then starts to > eat into other work. > > Sure it's fun, but is it worth it - especially if the upstream > maintainer has dropped the package? It may no be worth it, but it should be up to the packager to decide (that's different from the issue of orphans/unmaintained packages). > Hard one. You can't go on version number or time. Possible answer is if > there is a development branch, if that's dead then the package is > possibly/probably dead. It doesn't mean that it shouldn't be packaged. It may be dead because there isn't anything to improve. > > My point was more, why orphan it if the general consensus is to drop it? > > Should it not be placed in a "dropped" list or something? > > Again. lends weight to my point about the FL branch. If it's dropped > into Legacy and you want to bring it back to a current branch, that's > not a problem, but if it's in Legacy it can be effectively considered > dropped. Orphaned packages that weren't dependencies for other packages have been dropped from FE5 (if I remember correctly). I think it is right. They will completly disappear when FC5 move out of fedora legacy (at least that was the plan, I believe). But it should also be possible not to move on to the devel branch and create a directory for the new release when there is a new fc release, even for non orphaned packages, if a packager think that it is not usefull and nobody is willing to maintainn it for newer releases. I don't know if it is allready possible. -- Pat -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
