On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 3:36 PM Robbie Harwood <rharwood@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Would you see a value in e.g. some kind of a robot reminding
> > maintainers of such obsolete code? (e.g. new RPMinspect or ZUUL CI
> > check)
>
> Please don't.
Would you mind expanding your answer a bit, please?
I'd like to learn why people would (not) like such a check or reminder.
I agree. I usually keep them around for a couple of releases especially when it has to do with preserving an upgrade path (support f<xx>-2) or for more recent EOL'd releases if someone wants to manually keep a package going for a while.
But I see no purpose in keeping around conditionals for anything past 4 releases ago and I see them sometimes when rebuilding packages. I recently saw one for Fedora 24...
Thanks,
Richard