FYI https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/createrepo_c_1.0.0 means that
createrepo would need some real investment in order to work with createrepo
1.0.

On Fri, Jun 2, 2023 at 7:33 PM Александър Куртаков <akurta...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hey everyone,
> For the September release I plan to remove couple of RPM plugins:
> * createrepo - This one has been failing our builds for quite some time
> now and creating your own RPM repository in the days of Flatpak are so rare
> and I doubt that a single person will do it from inside Eclipse as it
> requires a good infrastructure behind it.
> * rpmstubby - Back in the days when packaging almost everything as RPM was
> the norm it made a lot of sense to generate almost good RPM spec files from
> metadata (Maven, Python, Perl packages) but less and less things being
> packaged in RPM and even more rarely mass creating huge number of packages
> this is no longer helpful. Furthermore the spec files generated are against
> years old RPM version and thus probably range from non-working to purely
> bad-style ones and this is definitely not how auto-generated content should
> look like.
>
> If you are interested in keeping these (or one of them) please get in
> contact and step up to improve them. If no one steps up my plan is to
> remove in a month or so.
>
> Best regards,
> Alex
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