On 2026-10-21 18:59, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, Oct 21 2026 at 09:12:07 -07:00:00, Adam Williamson
<[email protected]> wrote:
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.
IMHO, the right thing to do would be to not retire packages on which lots of
other packages depend in the first place!
So, you would rather keep them in the distro with no maintainers whatsoever,
with no deadline?
If that's the case, I strongly disagree with that.
Let's work together to make it less surprising for the dependent packages
owners when their dependencies are pulled from under them instead?
We send 6 weekly email reminders when packages are bound to be retired due to
be being orphaned. We send 5 weekly reminders when packages re bound to be
retired due to long FTBFS.
I think we only send Bugzilla reminders when packages are to be retired for
fails to install -- dependent packages maintainers are likely kept in the dark
here (unless they maintain both the dependent and the dependency) and we should
improve that.
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