F35 Change: Remove authselect-compat package (System-Wide Change proposal)

[Ben Cotton]

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

== Summary ==

Authselect replaced authconfig tool in Fedora 28. To enable some level
of backwards compatibility, it ships the authconfig command as a
wrapper around authselect calls in package "authselect-compat".
Authselect is now well adopted and the shim compatibility layer should
be removed by removing the authselect-compat package.

== Owner ==
* Name: [[User:pbrezina| Pavel Březina]]
* Email: <pbrezina(a)redhat.com&gt;


== Detailed Description ==

Affected components:

* authselect: remove the authselect-compat package
* pykickstart: remove support for authconfig
* anaconda: remove support for authconfig

"dnf repoquery --whatrequires" does not yield any package depending on
authselect-compat nor authconfig.


== Benefit to Fedora ==

The authconfig command will no longer be available, this will finish
the replacement by authselect.

== Scope ==
* Proposal owners:

authselect maintainers - Submit PR for anaconda/pykickstart to remove
authconfig support and remove authselect-compat package from Fedora.

* Other developers: anaconda/pykickstart maintainers - must accept the
PR and push it to Fedora

* Release engineering: [https://pagure.io/releng/issue/10169 #10169]
* Policies and guidelines: The policies and guidelines do not need to
be updated.
* Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)
* Alignment with Objectives: N/A


== Upgrade/compatibility impact ==

The authselect-compat package will be removed, authconfig command will
no longer be available.

== How To Test ==

* authselect-compat package and authconfig command should no longer be available
* anaconda/kickstart should no longer support authconfig directive

== User Experience ==

Users that keeps using authconfig/authselect-compat will need to start
using authselect directly.

== Dependencies ==

No package depends on authconfig/authselect-compat. Authconfig is used
by Anaconda/pykickstart and this support will be removed.

== Contingency Plan ==

authselect-compat package stays.

* Contingency mechanism: authselect-compat package stays.
* Contingency deadline: Beta
* Blocks release? No


== Documentation ==

This is a simple packaging change, there is no additional documentation.

== Release Notes ==

Authselect-compat package is removed, therefore authconfig command is
no longer available. Users are encouraged to use its replacement, the
authselect command.


-- 
Ben Cotton
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Fedora Program Manager
Red Hat
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