On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 08:17:36PM +0200, Miro Hrončok wrote:
On 11. 10. 21 20:14, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
>On Fri, Oct 08, 2021 at 08:21:51AM +0200, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
>>Dne 07. 10. 21 v 18:23 Miro Hrončok napsal(a):
>>>When are you supposed to run remove-retired-packages?
>>After the upgrade.
>>>
>>>If you run remove-retired-packages after the upgrade, you already
>>>managed to upgrade and nothing is broken, no?
>>
>>
>>Nothing is broken **now**. But it very often broke N+1 or N+2
>>upgrade. I remember some package broken N+5 upgrade. And then you
>>(or some co-maintainer) hesitated to add it to
>>fedora-obsolete-packages because "it is too old". :)
>
>That's why we should keep packages in f-o-p for much longer than we
>currently do. There was just a thread about Jiri upgrading from F22
>to a recent release. That procedure would have been made easier if
>f-o-p had more packages.
>
>What exactly is the rationale for constantly trimming the list in f-o-p?
It is a huge mess to maintain.
Hmm, I still don't get it. It's just a list that you append to at the end.
Old entries don't need to be touched at all.
Zbyszek