On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 3:39 PM, Mikolaj Izdebski <mizdebsk(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On 09/24/2018 08:52 PM, Miro HronĨok wrote:
> On 24.9.2018 19:09, Mikolaj Izdebski wrote:
>> I'm in the process of transitioning maintenance of all software to
>> modules only. The reason is that module maintenance is much easier
>> compared to maintenance of non-modular, "ursine" packages.
>>
>> Ideally these packages should be retired instead of orphaning them, but
>> these packages are build-required by a lot of other things.
> This is an interesting situation. If more maintainers will decide to do
> this, we can easily break everything and only have modules, except we
> will no longer have any system to have those modules run on.
>
> (I'm not saying you shouldn't do this; I'm just really concerned if
> modularity is actually helping Fedora as a whole or if it will
> eventually break it entirely.)
I was hoping for a solution like "ursa-major" described in [1], that
would allow modules to be used as build-dependencies for non-modular
packages. This would allow properly retiring non-modular packages and
maintaining only modules, which would be also used as build dependencies
for non-modular packages. But it seems that currently no one is
interested in implementing such solution.
Java SIG is dying slowly, this package set recently lost another
co-maintainer and I don't have time to maintain all these packages by
myself. Switching to module-only content is probably the best move to
keep high-quality software delivered to our users and reduce maintenance
work at the same time.
[1]
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/infrastructure@lists.fedora...
This is something that worried me also when I read this message.
Are modules only intended for leaf packages at the moment? I admit
that I have not really been keeping up to date with modularity. Or is
the intended workflow that (eventually) everything's a module, and so
if something needs to depend on a module, it too must be inside a
module for this to work?
This seems like it could become a problem, because I imagine that
there are lots of leaf packages out there that aren't in modules, or
don't necessarily need to be in modules-- unless parts of the
distribution start becoming module-only.
(Maybe this discussion belongs in a new thread, but I think it's important).
Ben Rosser