On Thu, 2023-01-26 at 15:49 +0000, Patrick Griffis via devel wrote:
> 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.
How is an orphan package a good service to users? It will just become
outdated and degrade over time. I think it is far more responsible,
and respectful of users, to accept that some packages are better
maintained elsewhere.
Orphaned packages get automatically retired after a short period of
time if nobody adopts them. So orphaning is a courtesy to give someone
else a *chance* to adopt the package; if nobody does, it'll then get
retired without you having to do anything extra.
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