On Mon, 10 Feb 2020, 08:44 John M. Harris Jr, <joh...@splentity.com> wrote:
> On Sunday, February 9, 2020 3:54:51 PM MST Neal Gompa wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 5:36 PM John M. Harris Jr <joh...@splentity.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Friday, January 31, 2020 7:58:55 AM MST Peter Robinson wrote: > > > > > > > Feankly if a proprietary piece of software hasn't migrated in 8+ > years > > > > I > > > > would be looking for a replacement. > > > > > > > > > > > > Proprietary software works at the speed of eventually. This is why RHEL > > > maintains compat libraries going back a ridiculous amount of time, and > > > why > > > RHEL 5, for example, is still used today. > > > > > > > > > > > > At some point, someone has to push to eject button. Speaking from > > experience, it's rare that ISVs are willing to be proactive and move > > forward as the community does. The difference between FOSS ISVs and > > proprietary software ISVs is that the community cannot do anything to > > help fix software for the latter. They only move forward when forced to. > > > > I'm sorry, but it simply does not make sense to keep gstreamer0.10 in > > Fedora anymore. I don't say that lightly: the first package I ever > > contributed to Fedora was a pygtk2 application using gstreamer0.10 > > called oggconvert. But it is dead this days, and I retired it for > > Fedora 31. Nobody is caring for these things, and stuff like this is > > usually a source of major security issues. > > > > Even today, those people using RHEL 5 are only *now* moving to RHEL 7 > > because it was EOLed three years ago. Folks depending on RHEL 6 who > > are slow to move are starting their plans to move to RHEL 8. It is > > what it is. But Fedora is not RHEL. Fedora is supposed to be the place > > where everything happens first. And if we want RHEL releases without > > old, unmaintained stuff, we have to chuck it in Fedora first. > > I don't know about you, but I'd rather the software keeps working, rather > than > ceasing to function because a library it depends on is no longer > available. As > long as it builds and functions, why remove it? > Because it implies it's supported for things like security updates and related things where in reality the gst 0.10 series hasn't been for the best part of a decade and when it comes to media and dealing with internet streams/media that is a real life security problem. The fact it builds is but one part of the overall problem. -- > John M. Harris, Jr. > Splentity > > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
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