On Ter, 2015-07-28 at 16:48 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
>>
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/pyorbit.git/plain/dead.package
>>
>>> last user has been retired, package EOL
>> Error: nothing provides pyorbit(x86-64) >= 2.0.1 needed by
gnome-python2-bonobo-2.28.1-16.fc23.x86_64
>>
>> What's the full story here? Where has this been discussed/announced?
> I'm no longer interested in a response to this inquiry as I've dropped
> ownership of SoundConverter (which depends on gnome-python2-bonobo and some
> other gnome-python2-* packages).
>
As I have thought for some time, I think we should have a team to keep
packages and make migrations like gtk2 to gkt3, libgnome2, pyorbit,
gnome-python2, pyhton2 to python3 , qt3 etc etc
A team that take care of legacy software, preferably that update it, I
got some in my own gdesklets , rawstudio, gmameui , flumontion ,
gtetrinet ...
In the other day, thread "Investigation of the F23 mass rebuild" "that
nearly 4% of our binary packages haven't rebuilt in F23, is quite
worrisome" , but my question is, should we need rebuild all that is
legacy software ? We have do something or helping project migrate
software or make a group of legacy software, that could be not part of
base of Fedora and mass rebuilds , the mummified software .
Looking for dependencies of pyorbit :
repoquery --repoid=rawhide --whatrequires pyorbit\*
gnome-python2-bonobo
repoquery --repoid=rawhide --whatrequires gnome-python2\*| wc -l
76
Looks to me, gnome-python2 is deprecated and all software that depends
on should be migrated .
Other example /usr/share/gnome/help , things for gnome-doc-utils, this
is documentation for Gnome2 ? this isn't used anymore ? isn't ? .
Anyway, we should look for this classes of software and decide what
todo , instead leaving them without a plan .
To have a team is nice idea, but I am a bit skeptic you will find enough
volunteers. Anyway, since the cleanup of non-maintained packages, FTBFS
packages or packages with broken dependencies is more aggressive then it
used to be, this looks to be the plan to me ...
Vít