Hi all,
We originally introduced the sway module to have an up-to-date version of sway even in older releases. This is no longer necessary, as all stable releases have a reasonable new version of sway.
In my opinion, we can just get rid of the module, especially given that modularized packages are still uncommon in Fedora. Do you still have a use for the module?
Kind regards, Till
On 10/25/20 4:12 AM, Till Hofmann wrote:
Hi all,
We originally introduced the sway module to have an up-to-date version of sway even in older releases. This is no longer necessary, as all stable releases have a reasonable new version of sway. In my opinion, we can just get rid of the module, especially given that modularized packages are still uncommon in Fedora. Do you still have a use for the module?
Last time we brought up this topic I actually asked on devel[1] and found out that it's quite hard to get rid of the module. With a certain series of hacks we can do that for rawhide. Nothing can be done for f33 since stable repository already has a copy of module metadata with all the packages included.
Also I recall that there were multiple users interested in 1.5 module update on reddit/irc. That's the reason I didn't stop halfway despite the whole set of infra issues.
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I can assume full responsibility for the module and handle rebuilds on rawhide package changes.
I was also planning to bug modularity team until we can remove everything except sway and wlroots from the module without breaking upgrade paths. I'd really like to achieve that by f34 stabilization timeframe since it'll simplify maintenance of the module.
[1] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/...
Hi Till,
Till Hofmann till.hofmann@posteo.de writes:
Hi all,
We originally introduced the sway module to have an up-to-date version of sway even in older releases. This is no longer necessary, as all stable releases have a reasonable new version of sway.
In my opinion, we can just get rid of the module, especially given that modularized packages are still uncommon in Fedora. Do you still have a use for the module?
I personally have no use for the sway module as I usually am running the latest Fedora release. However, the module could be very useful for https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1784477 (sway for EPEL8). As a bunch of the dependencies are built time only, they could be easily included in the module. Also, the ability to set a custom EOL date of the module would be quite desirable so that it wouldn't have to be maintained for a decade. But again, I don't run CentOS on a desktop, so I have no real use case for this, besides some interest how modularity works.
Cheers,
Dan