On Thu, Oct 1, 2026 at 4:20 AM Jakub Martisko via devel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > According to the package deprecation policy [1], I am planning to deprecate > the atlas package during the next week. > The upstream of Atlas has been inactive since 2018, with the last stable > release dating back to 2016; the project can be considered abandoned. > I am also planning to orphan the package sometime after F46 branching. If > anyone is interested in maintaining the package, feel free to message me. > > The only package that (Build)Required Atlas -- flexiblas -- has already been > updated to remove the dependency [3]. There is also one package that > Recommends atlas (xnec2c) [4]; however, since weak dependencies do not > prevent the dependent package from functioning, I suppose FESCo approval is > not required? I have notified the xnec2c maintainer regardless. >
Deprecating a package that is pulled in via weak dependencies (ie Recommends/Supplements) still require FESCo approval, from a policy perspective they are equivalent to strong dependencies (ie Requires) and all dependencies must be satisfiable. But if the dependency is dropped and shipped into the Fedora repositories ahead of you adding the deprecation, then no FESCo approval is required. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! -- _______________________________________________ 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
