On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 01:41:30AM +0100, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > Michael Catanzaro wrote: > > The maintainer is unwilling to retire them. > > > > I think we should ask FESCo to force them to be retired. It's confusing > > to have ancient versions of the packages in the distro, and they will > > stick around forever if not. > > I do not see why we would want to force removing working, maintained > packages from the distribution. That is a major disservice to users and > basically a "screw you" to the maintainer. Whom does that help? > > GLib 1 and GTK+ 1 are compatibility libraries. It is their whole purpose to > "stick around forever", at least as long as somebody is willing to maintain > them. They are needed to keep legacy applications working. > > If FESCo wants to get involved at all (I do not really see any need for them > to intervene in the first place), I ask FESCo to affirm that a compatibility > library can remain in the distribution as long as it is maintained and to > ask people to refrain from posting unhelpful threads such as this one. > > Nobody is asking you to maintain those packages, so I do not see why you > need to care at all about their existence.
Could they be renamed "glib1", etc? That would remove any confusion that they cause with the latest glib, and as Kevin says above they can then be ignored by people who don't care about them. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
