On Wed, Jul 07, 2021 at 02:27:39PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Fabio Valentini: > > > If it turns out that really actually nobody uses this, why not drop it > > upstream, and have the guile support removal come with the next GNU > > toolchain Change for Fedora? > > Guile support in GNU packages is a goal of the GNU project, I think. > Where Guile is used as a scripting language for a larger program, its > use is generally optional. And it is unlikely that this optional > support will be removed upstream. > > Given that, “do what upstream does” doesn't really help to solve settle > the matter in Fedora.
Yeah, I agree with that. Upstreams have different goals than Fedora, different stability policies, and different sets of people involved. I think it's entirely reasonable to deprecate and remove features (or bring in new dependencies and introduce features) in Fedora at a different schedule than upstream. Sometimes it'll be faster, sometimes it'll be slower. Even if our packagers are also upstream developers it does not mean that upstream==Fedora. Zbyszek _______________________________________________ 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 on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
