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