On Thu, 2023-01-26 at 15:49 +0000, Patrick Griffis via devel wrote: > > IMHO, retiring a Fedora package in favor of an upstream binary of > > whatever > > kind (Flatpak, Snap, AppImage, RPM, binary tarball, whatever) is a > > major > > disservice to Fedora users and defeats the whole point of having a > > distribution to begin with. > > How is an orphan package a good service to users? It will just become > outdated and degrade over time. I think it is far more responsible, > and respectful of users, to accept that some packages are better > maintained elsewhere.
Orphaned packages get automatically retired after a short period of time if nobody adopts them. So orphaning is a courtesy to give someone else a *chance* to adopt the package; if nobody does, it'll then get retired without you having to do anything extra. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA IRC: adamw | Twitter: adamw_ha https://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org 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/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
