On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 10:07:27AM +0300, Otto Urpelainen wrote: > Hello, > > As part of the effort to move the Package Maintainer docs to > docs.fedoraproject.org [1], I have been reviewing the existing wiki > documentation. I would like to ask for insight on the following item: > > Page _How to remove a package at end of life_ [2] first says that retirement > is done by running 'fedpkg retire', then later alludes to a special case: > > > 'git rm' all files in the other branches *only if* there are special > factors at work, like licensing issues, or package being removed completely > from Fedora. > > I understand this to mean that in special conditions, the package cannot > remain behind even in stable or end-of-life Fedora releases. However, I do > not understand why 'git rm' is mandated instead of 'fedpkg retire' that is > used in the normal case — is the 'dead.package' tombstone somehow unwanted > in this case? I cannot understand why it would be.
It might be somehow 'fedpkg retire' doesn't handle this case? But I agree if it does it should be used instead of 'git rm'. We _do_ want a dead.package there. > Also, if the intent is to get rid of the package completely, should not > adding it to fedora-obsolete-packages be required as well? And would that > even work for end-of-life releases? I would say no, but I guess we do this now all the time to normal actual obsolete packages. :( > Lastly, even if this complete removal case is rare, it seems to be important > enough to have its own process description. Should it be given its own page, > "Package Withdrawal Process" or "Package Removal Process" or such, with > content like "1) retire the package 2) do these additional steps"? It is very very rare (like 3-4 times ever). I would think a seperate section there would be fine. Or perhaps it's so rare we don't need to document it? but that seems like it might be bad someday... kevin
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