Removing ghostscript-fonts package

[Zdenek Dohnal]

Hi,

I am going to retire ghostscript-fonts package in F27 because its fonts
are deprecated and replaced by urw-base35-fonts package. Only package
which depends on ghostscript-fonts seems to be hylafax+ package, I
created bugzilla for it
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1499240 . Does anyone have
any objections on its retirement?

If there isn't any objections, I'll retire it next Monday.

Zdenek

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Zdenek Dohnal
Associate Software Engineer
Red Hat Czech - Brno TPB-C

[Samuel Sieb]

On 10/06/2017 05:49 AM, Zdenek Dohnal wrote:
>  I am going to retire ghostscript-fonts package in F27 because its
> fonts
>  are deprecated and replaced by urw-base35-fonts package. Only package
>  which depends on ghostscript-fonts seems to be hylafax+ package, I
>  created bugzilla for it
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1499240 . Does anyone have
>  any objections on its retirement?
>  
>  If there isn't any objections, I'll retire it next Monday. 
Isn't it too late to retire it for F27?  And unless there's a pressing 
reason to retire it, the usual procedure is for you to orphan it and if 
no one else wants it, it will get retired automatically.

[Peter Robinson]

On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 10:54 PM, Samuel Sieb <samuel(a)sieb.net&gt; wrote:
>  On 10/06/2017 05:49 AM, Zdenek Dohnal wrote:
> >
> > I am going to retire ghostscript-fonts package in F27 because its fonts
> > are deprecated and replaced by urw-base35-fonts package. Only package
> > which depends on ghostscript-fonts seems to be hylafax+ package, I
> > created bugzilla for it
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1499240 . Does anyone have
> > any objections on its retirement?
> >
> > If there isn't any objections, I'll retire it next Monday.
>
>
>  Isn't it too late to retire it for F27?  And unless there's a pressing
>  reason to retire it, the usual procedure is for you to orphan it and if no
>  one else wants it, it will get retired automatically. 
No, that's not necessarily the case, if it's dead upstream and the
maintainer knows that there's reason to just retire it they can do
exactly that. The orphan first tends to be for packages where it's not
necessarily dead and someone might be interested in it.

[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 8:49 AM, Zdenek Dohnal <zdohnal(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  Hi,
>
>  I am going to retire ghostscript-fonts package in F27 because its fonts
>  are deprecated and replaced by urw-base35-fonts package. Only package
>  which depends on ghostscript-fonts seems to be hylafax+ package, I
>  created bugzilla for it
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1499240 . Does anyone have
>  any objections on its retirement?
>
>  If there isn't any objections, I'll retire it next Monday.
>
>  Zdenek 
May I request respectfully that you orphan it first? Hylafax++ is one
of those *extremely* stable, robust packages that has needed very few
architectural updates in its lifetime. It is used commercially, at
last check, by the Efax company. It was originally written by Sam
Leffler, the inventor of TIFF and one of the authors of the original
BSD: I'm one of the first people to package it as an RPM, and wrote
the first public ports to Linux and to SunOS.

The maintainers probably hadn't kept track of the ghostscript-fonts
becoming obsolete in Fedora, because it "just worked(tm)". I can try
to reach out to the current maintainers.