On Mon, Oct 5, 2026 at 5:10 PM Stephen J Smoogen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Oct 5, 2026, at 11:03, Michael Catanzaro via devel wrote: > > There is another problem: this package was maintained by somebody else > > in EPEL 10, but it's extremely outdated there and there are about 400 > > unresolved CVE tracker bugs. I propose we retire WebKitGTK from EPEL > > 10, if it's even possible to retire EPEL packages. > > > > It used to be and that would be a prime reason to retire it. > > > If somebody uses it in EPEL 10 and wishes to keep it building then I > > can give the package to you, but I fear it might become very hard to > > maintain because I'm not sure how long the current API versions will be > > supported. > > Honestly, looking at the amount of hours and work you had to do regularly to > keep this going.. I would say retire it. If no one is getting paid to make > something this difficult to work then there is no reason to keep it going.
Yes, it is possible to retire packages from EPEL, but please follow the documented process: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/epel/epel-policy-retirement/ Thank you for maintaining the package in Fedora up to now! Fabio -- _______________________________________________ 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
