On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 3:17 AM James Ralston <rals...@pobox.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 12:33 PM Aoife Moloney <amolo...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > The main benefit is to decrease the maintenance and packaging work > > on library that does not bring much value while the functionality is > > provided by another components. > > On most (all?) Linux distributions, Puppet relies on libuser in order > to manage group membership as an attribute of a group (1), because > historically the shadow-utils package could not. There are folks who > use Puppet to manage Fedora systems, and pulling the libuser package > will break the ability of Puppet to manage group membership on Fedora.
Note that "deprecate" here means "no new packages are allowed to depend on it, but it will not (yet) be removed". So existing uses are *fine* (but are of course encouraged to migrate to different solutions, if possible). Fabio _______________________________________________ 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
