F39 proposal: Man-pages-ru Retirement (Self-Contained Change proposal)

[Ben Cotton]

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ManPagesRuRetirement

This document represents a proposed Change. As part of the Changes
process, proposals are publicly announced in order to receive
community feedback. This proposal will only be implemented if approved
by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee.

== Summary ==
Retiring man-pages-ru because it is already part of the man-pages-l10n.

== Owner ==
* Name: [[User:ljavorsk| Lukas Javorsky]]
* Email: [e-mail]

== Detailed Description ==
Upstream (man-pages-l10n) has integrated Russian translations for
man-pages. It means we no longer need to have a specific
(man-pages-ru) package for it.
[https://salsa.debian.org/manpages-l10n-team/manpages-l10n/-/commit/37b44f5a8...
Upstream commit containing the change]

The plan is simple:
1) Deprecate man-pages-ru package

2) Enable 'ru' translations for man-pages-l10n (temporary disabled due
to conflicts). [https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/man-pages-l10n/c/00a88c237e1fd7cdef9c5266...
Commit disabling it]
Also add Obsolete and Provides for man-pages-ru package.

== Feedback ==
Early feedback from the community is positive, the feedback is located
in this  ([https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/...
Devel list announce])

== Benefit to Fedora ==
Fedora shouldn't maintain a redundant package. This change would make
it easier for the maintainer as well as for the packages that requires
man-pages-l10n and man-pages-ru.

== Scope ==
* Proposal owners: Package man-pages-ru will be retired, and the
man-pages-l10n will contain the Russian translations.

* Other developers: Change the names of their BuildRequires/Requires
accordingly.

* Release engineering: No action required

* Policies and guidelines: N/A (not needed for this Change)

* Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)

* Alignment with Objectives:

== Upgrade/compatibility impact ==
When following the plan in Detailed Description there will be no need
for manual action. Everything will be handled by the automated dnf
upgrade.

== How To Test ==

== User Experience ==

== Dependencies ==
List of the packages from Fedora 39

=== man-pages-ru ===
dnf repoquery --whatrequires man-pages-ru | pkgname
<empty>

dnf repoquery --whatrequires '/usr/share/man/ru/*' | pkgname
<empty>

== Contingency Plan ==
* Contingency mechanism: Remove the man-pages-l10n build with Russian
translation enabled. Revert deprecation of the man-pages-ru package.
* Contingency deadline: Beta freeze
* Blocks release? No

''NOTE: If we don't finish this change by the deadline, it is possible
to just complete this change with the next release.''

== Documentation ==
[https://salsa.debian.org/manpages-l10n-team/manpages-l10n/-/commit/37b44f5a8...
Upstream issue]
[https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2163421 Bugzilla tracker]
[https://sourceforge.net/p/man-pages-ru/discussion/1102373/thread/7dda92a232/
man-pages-l10n upstream discussion with man-pages-ru upstream about
this]

== Release Notes ==