Samyak Jain venit, vidit, dixit 2026-02-09 09:42:47: > Hi all, > > While working on branching, Wenoticed a small set of package > repositories that appear to have no commits at all. These repositories > seem to have been created with “no initial git commit” and were never > populated. > > Because of this, branches such as rawhide do not exist and operations > against the repos fail with errors like: > > fatal: Not a valid object name rawhide > > The following packages currently fall into this category: > > ardour9 > gaim-otr > httpcomponents-core4 > ntetris > python3.11-testpath-epel > python3.11-tomli-w-epel > python38-hvac > python38-netaddr > python38-ntlm-auth-epel > python38-pynetbox > python38-requests_ntlm-epel > python-epel-rpm-macros > python-yubikey-manager > tetex > themonospot > v2strip > xorg-x11-drv-i810 > > We will also be contacting the maintainers directly. If you maintain > (or know of plans to maintain) any of these packages, please speak up. > > Unless there is a reason to keep them, the intent is to retire > repositories that have never contained any packaging content.
I think the analysis of the root cause is flawed. For example, "tetex" does have commits and branches (and tags). It does not have a rawhide ref (nor main), though, because it apparantly got abandoned since the dist-git conversion. Also, what is "retire a repository"? We retire packages. And that is what we should do with non-empty repos like e.g. tetex, in order to keep distribution history, unless we decide to make a cut in our history. We could prune completely empty repos, but really, please re-check: git ls-remote https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/ardour9 71f0fde7f664dfcded613ae62c9a149db50e5d13 HEAD 71f0fde7f664dfcded613ae62c9a149db50e5d13 refs/heads/f42 71f0fde7f664dfcded613ae62c9a149db50e5d13 refs/heads/f43 71f0fde7f664dfcded613ae62c9a149db50e5d13 refs/heads/f44 71f0fde7f664dfcded613ae62c9a149db50e5d13 refs/heads/rawhide Michael -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] 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/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
