On 10 Dec 2016 1:45 p.m., "Ralf Corsepius" <rc040203@freenet.de> wrote:
On 12/10/2016 02:16 PM, Peter Oliver wrote:
On 9 Dec 2016 5:02 a.m., "Kevin Kofler" <kevin.kofler@chello.at
<mailto:kevin.kofler@chello.at>> wrote:

    Retiring such a library
    is a very long process and not doable within a Fedora release.

Is this true?
 
You can not remove any package without a drop-in replacement in a released version of Fedora, because it would break user installations.

I.e. you can only retire packages from rawhide.

Sorry, yes, I had misread "within a Fedora release" as "within a single Fedora release cycle", i.e., the soonest we could drop a library would be Fedora n+2.

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Peter Oliver