python-lockfile deprecation

[Carl George]

Howdy Python SIG and python-lockfile maintainers,

I recently noticed that pylockfile (packaged as python-lockfile in
Fedora and EPEL) is no longer maintained upstream (since 2017).

https://github.com/openstack-archive/pylockfile

I see 10 packages that still (build)require this, so retirement is
probably premature, but is anyone opposed to me marking the package as
deprecated so that new packages can't (build)require it?

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/deprecating-pac...

-- 
Carl George

[Ben Beasley]

Deprecating a non-leaf package does technically require a FESCo approved 
Change[1]. Considering the upstream project has been archived since 2017 
and deprecated since 2015, I would certainly favor deprecating 
python-lockfile in Fedora.

[1] 
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/deprecating-pac...


On 12/13/22 00:06, Carl George wrote:
> Howdy Python SIG and python-lockfile maintainers,
>
> I recently noticed that pylockfile (packaged as python-lockfile in
> Fedora and EPEL) is no longer maintained upstream (since 2017).
>
> https://github.com/openstack-archive/pylockfile
>
> I see 10 packages that still (build)require this, so retirement is
> probably premature, but is anyone opposed to me marking the package as
> deprecated so that new packages can't (build)require it?
>
> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/deprecating-pac...
>

[Miro Hrončok]

On 13. 12. 22 6:06, Carl George wrote:
>  Howdy Python SIG and python-lockfile maintainers,
>  
>  I recently noticed that pylockfile (packaged as python-lockfile in
>  Fedora and EPEL) is no longer maintained upstream (since 2017).
>  
>  https://github.com/openstack-archive/pylockfile
>  
>  I see 10 packages that still (build)require this, so retirement is
>  probably premature, but is anyone opposed to me marking the package as
>  deprecated so that new packages can't (build)require it? 
I'd support such change proposal.

I wanted to get rid of it long ago but poetry requires CacheControl[filecache] 
and that requires this one.

-- 
Miro Hrončok
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