Orphaning most of the ancient Gnome 1 stack

[Paul Howarth]

Hi all,

I've been looking after the ancient Gnome 1 library stack for the last
decade as I had a local use for the libraries. That is no longer the
case so I'm planning to orphan the following packages, none of which
appear to be used by anything else in Fedora (Rawhide):

* libglade
 * gnome-libs
 * ORBit
 * imlib
 * libxml
 * libpng10

(tested using:
 dnf repoquery --repo=rawhide{,-source} --whatrequires XXX
)

I expect that nobody will pick them up and they'll get retired along
with other orphaned packages in due course. If anyone actually has an
interest in these packages, let me know and I'll transfer them.

I'll still take care of the bottom two packages in the stack as they
still have several users in Rawhide:

* gtk+
 * glib

Regards, Paul.

[Paul Howarth]

On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 09:04:07 +0000
Paul Howarth  wrote:
> I've been looking after the ancient Gnome 1 library stack for the last
> decade as I had a local use for the libraries. That is no longer the
> case so I'm planning to orphan the following packages, none of which
> appear to be used by anything else in Fedora (Rawhide):
> libglade
> gnome-libs
> ORBit
> imlib
> libxml
> libpng10

These are now orphaned.

Paul.

[Peter Robinson]

> On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 09:04:07 +0000
> Paul Howarth  wrote:
> > I've been looking after the ancient Gnome 1 library stack for the last
> > decade as I had a local use for the libraries. That is no longer the
> > case so I'm planning to orphan the following packages, none of which
> > appear to be used by anything else in Fedora (Rawhide):
> > libglade
> > gnome-libs
> > ORBit
> > imlib
> > libxml
> > libpng10
>
> These are now orphaned.

So I've actively retired these as, for at least a few of my packages,
they also allowed me to retired a bunch of stuff that I had some how
ended up "maintaining".

I think these sort of long tail packages should be actively moved to
places like copr if people wish to keep them around. I think this
should be a subject that FESCo actively addresses.

That aside thank you Paul for actively maintaining them as long as you did.

Peter