On Tue, 2026-10-20 at 13:04 +0200, Marcin Juszkiewicz via devel wrote: > I work on building Fedora for the RISC-V architecture. We use separate > koji for that and separate builders (which are slow). > > During Fedora 46 (current rawhide) cycle several packages were removed > from distributions. But their leafs are left in distribution. > > For example kf5-kpimtextedit (and IIRC most/all kf5-* ones) is now > orphaned and was removed from the rawhide. > > > But blogilo (which builddepends on kf5-*-devel) is still in rawhide, > despite the fact that it cannot be built any more. > > Same with kopete, kpeoplevcard and probably several other apps written > for KDE/Plasma 5.x which cannot be built any more. > > > I know that we have mass rebuild every cycle which is used to find out > such packages, but can we remove packages in a wiser way? With all their > leafs?
IIRC, we don't do that because in some/many cases, the deps can be tweaked to not require the retired package any more. So we don't want to just auto-retire them. -- Adam Williamson (he/him/his) Fedora QA Fedora Chat: @adamwill:fedora.im | Mastodon: @[email protected] https://www.happyassassin.net -- _______________________________________________ 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
