On 29. 01. 19 16:17, Honza Horak wrote:
On 1/29/19 11:57 AM, Vít Ondruch wrote:
>
> Dne 29. 01. 19 v 11:39 Miro Hrončok napsal(a):
>> On 29. 01. 19 11:29, Ben Cotton wrote:
>>>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/MongoDB_Removal
>>>
>>> == Summary ==
>>> Fedora has determined that the Server Side Public Licensev1 (SSPL) is
>>> not a Free Software License. Therefore, we need to drop MongoDB from
>>> Fedora.
>>
>> While I'm in favor of the removal, I don't think this is entirely true.
>>
>> It should read:
>>
>>> Therefore, we need to drop MongoDB from Fedora or never update it
>> again.
>>> Never updating it would bring security issues, hence we decided to
>> remove it.
>>
>>> Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
>>
>> This is not true. This page needs to list all dependent packages on
>> Mongo and all dependent packages on Mongo connectors (such as
>> python-pymongo).
>
>
> Yes, right. There is rubygem-mongo and rubygem-mongoid and they will
> become FTBFS without MongoDB. The test suite could be disabled, but this
> will be unfortunate, because historically it helped to uncover issues on
> some of our arches.
While I see the value of tests, I personally don't consider just the testing
purposes to be a good enough reason to keep unmaintained mongodb-server in
Fedora, and don't see any other option here.
Do you see any viable solution here, Vit?
My understanding is that not only we will not able to test those, but there will
be no point of shipping them at all. What am I missing?
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