Retire glib and gtk+ 1.2 from rawhide?

Léon Keijser keijser at stone-it.com
Mon May 10 06:23:33 UTC 2010


On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 02:09 -0400, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
> Anyway, do we have a Fedora policy to remove software just because
> they are old and unmaintained upstream? If there is a happy userbase
> and a maintainer willing to take care of the package, what is the big
> deal?

I still use an old nethack-like game that unfortunately depends on gtk
1.2.  Since i'll never be able to get it into Fedora, i just install gtk
myself then i'm good to go again. I would regret it if my favorite
distro drops the package simply because it's not being maintaned
upstream.  


Léon





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