On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 05:01:19PM +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
I didn't say to remove the packages, but to mark them as
"unmaintained"
(assuming there is such a mechanism).
There is a process to orphan packages, but it is a process started by
the maintainer.
Periodically, you can see on the -devel list that unresponsive
maintainers have their packages orphaned. This leads to all sorts of
dependency issues. A bunch of java dependencies were orphaned earlier
this year, iirc, and it caused many packages to be removed because
their dependencies could not be met. Basically, a huge chunk of the
java ecosystem in Fedora went away.
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Jonathan Billings <billings(a)negate.org>