On 02/19/2016 04:16 AM, ~Stack~ wrote:
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>>>> 1. Packages will never disappear. [They don't disappear from Fedora
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>>>> even if it is archived.. ]
>>> To my understanding we never made this promise. We should try and
>>> communicate why it's NOT something we promise.
>> Could you elaborate on this please? I have asked before, but didn't
>> really get an answer. I don't understand this.
>>
> Software in EPEL follows many of the same rules as software in Fedora.
> If there isn't an active maintainer the software is removed. This is
> because a lot of people expect that the software is going to be
> getting updates and bug fixes when it is there. If it isn't there it
> is clear that it isn't getting any bug fixes.
>
> While as a user this is a major pain in the butt, on the other side
> (maintainers and developers of the software) it is a major pain when
> the opposite occurs. Developers get complaints about software they no
> longer have any interest in and try to find someone to get rid of the
> old software. People who are maintainers of other packages get long
> hate emails about why is this software still in XYZ repository if no
> one is going to care about it. It burnt out a lot of the early
> repository people because they had made a package for someone at some
> point but really didn't have any care for it to be there any longer
> but all they were getting was crap for it being there.
Thanks for replying. Makes sense. But what would the harm be to move a
package into a separate "retired" repo?
We could expand
https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/ for this
purpose, after all