* On 1/31/20 8:57 PM, Neal Gompa wrote: > As for yum and yum-utils, their replacements are dnf and > dnf-plugins-core (which have subpackages yum and yum-utils > respectively to act as legacy interfaces). > > My understanding is that Mihai Moldovan was working on this for Debian > for the past few months. Mihai worked with me upstream in the DNF > project to get things adapted nicely for Debian packaging in a > reasonable way. I've added Mihai to the thread to allow him to > participate. > > Mihai, would you care to chime in on your progress?
Sure, thanks. I've made a list post introducing the packages at https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2019/09/msg00218.html , but sadly never received a response. This is hardly surprising, because the whole RPM stack in Debian is in a sorry state; essentially abandoned and unmaintained. :( The crucial "rpm" package has been up for adoption (c.f., https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=923352 ) for almost a year and pretty much all others as well. I haven't made a formal ITP for my dnf packages because I'm a.) not a Debian Developer but merely a user and b.) do not *want* to maintain these packages within Debian. I wouldn't be a good maintainer in the first place since I often slack on user requests and I just flat out lack the temporal resources to do this properly. The dnf packages (and dependencies) I've packaged (and successfully use for building RPM packages via mock for newer Fedora versions!) are all Python-3-compatible. I'm not sure if I ever formally removed the Python-2-variants, but it's likely that I did, since no new packages providing Python 2 applications were allowed for quite some time. At least for dnf and mock I don't see any problem with going Python-3-only. yum sadly is Python-2-only, which could be problematic. Yum is still required to fetch packages on older distros like CentOS 6 and 7. Then again, dnf provides a yum-compat-mode, so Debian should just drop the abandoned yum package completely. Mihai
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