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.
On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 09:04:07 +0000 Paul Howarth paul@city-fan.org 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.
On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 09:04:07 +0000 Paul Howarth paul@city-fan.org 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