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Summary: Please consider explicitly documenting end of life applications (and deprecate before removing)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=600249

Summary: Please consider explicitly documenting end of life applications (and deprecate before removing) Product: Fedora Documentation Version: devel Platform: All OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: medium Priority: low Component: release-notes AssignedTo: relnotes@fedoraproject.org ReportedBy: andrew.jones11235@orange.fr QAContact: kwade@redhat.com CC: eric@christensenplace.us, wb8rcr@arrl.net Classification: Fedora

Description of problem: The Fedora 12 standard for simple backups was "Simple Backup", and in Fedora 13 it became Deja Dup.

The release notes for Fedora 13 mentioned the change of the standard but offered no advice on transitioning from one to the other. I can live with that.

However it was not until I installed Fedora 13 that I realized that "Simple Backup" was no longer in the repository.

Suddenly I had half a Terabyte of backup data that was unusable. This situation was exacerbated by the fact that I installed Fedora 13 after a catastrophic disk failure and was relying on my backups to become productive again.

I worked around that problem and later I was shown where to find Simple Backup on Koji so I do not need anything in the short term.

I do, however, respectfully request that in future when replacing one solution with another you allow both to exist in the repositories for 6 months and document in the release notes and in the Yum/Packagekit data that application X is deprecated, only there for backwards compatibility, will disappear on the next release and is replaced by application Y

(This does not just apply to backups, but to any application which is replaced by another one)

Thanks...