#1311: linkage: dead package, please block in all branches

[Fedora Release Engineering]

#1311: linkage: dead package, please block in all branches
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  Reporter:  pgordon  |       Owner:  rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org
      Type:  task     |      Status:  new                            
 Milestone:           |   Component:  koji                           
Resolution:           |    Keywords:                                 
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Comment (by jwboyer):

 Replying to [ticket:1311 pgordon]:
 > I have EOL'ed linkage in Fedora as per the
 PackageMaintainers/PackageEndOfLife guidelines on the wiki - since it is
 essentially dead upstream and fails with recent rb_libtorrent versions.
 Please block it from F11/rawhide and the F9/F10 updates.

 It's easy enough to block from rawhide.  That's not a problem.

 Blocking it from F9 and F10 probably isn't going to happen.  Since the
 package was included in the repositories at release time, it's in the
 Everything repos for each and we don't alter those.

 I could be mistaken here, and if so someone else from rel-eng will yell at
 me.

 > Normally I would only remove it from the devel branch; but in this case
 I intend to bump rb_libtorrent and dependent packages in F9/F10 very soon,
 and that would break Linkage due to API/ABI changes. This is why I feel it
 best to have it blocked in its entirety.

 Perhaps it is best to not do the API/ABI break in a stable release.

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