Sounds right to me. Thanks, Troy.
On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 5:43 PM Troy Dawson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] >
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