On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 8:58 AM Troy Dawson <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 7:13 AM Stephen Gallagher <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 10:06 AM Troy Dawson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > >> This part, I slightly disagree with. There's no strong reason to remove > > >> the existing packages from their system (and doing so could potentially > > >> break third-party software relying on it). It's enough to not provide a > > >> newer version. (Also the metadata size cost associated with adding > > >> hundreds of nodejs-* packages to the Obsoletes: list is non-trivial). > > >> > > > Hmm ... that's what I thought the goal was, to remove as many of the > > > nodejs library packages as possible. > > > I'm ok changing that goal. > > > At the very least, we should remove all those nodejs libraries that do > > > not install, nor build. Unless the packager wants to bundle and fix them. > > > > > > I think you slightly misunderstood. We are *definitely* retiring those > > packages. So they cannot install them on F34+. I'm saying that we > > don't want them in fedora-obsolete-packages because there's no strong > > reason to forcibly remove them from systems that have them installed > > currently (and adding hundreds of packages to Obsoletes: would grow > > the repo metadata, which is already painfully large). They'll just > > bitrot. > > Ah, ok, I did misunderstand. I think I know what you mean now. > > How does this sound > > * Upgrade/compatibility impact > Retired nodejs libraries will have no upgrade or obsoletes. If they > were already installed on the system they will remain there. > > Or something more compact like > > * Upgrade/compatibility impact > None
* Upgrade/compatibility impact N/A Does anyone have anything else before I start on the official submission process? Troy _______________________________________________ nodejs 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]
