Re: Intent to orphan obsolete gnome-sig packages

On Thu, Aug 28 2025 at 06:18:49 AM -05:00:00, Michael Catanzaro 
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Not that I know of. Feel free to keep owning it; what we're going to 
> do is send a mail to package owners suggesting that you orphan it, 
> but you're the owner so you can just ignore it. Please remove 
> gnome-sig git permissions, though, since the upstream repo is 
> archived and the project is dead.

Hm, looks like seahorse-nautilus depends on libcryptui, which is yet 
another archived GNOME project. It would be a shame to keep this old 
unmaintained library around forever. But libcryptui is not on my list 
of obsolete packages because gnome-sig does not have commit access to 
it.

Fedora is biased towards keeping old things. If you want to own an 
obsolete package and keep it alive in the distro forever, you can. Old 
libraries annoy me and I wish we could get rid of them, but nobody will 
stop you from keeping it alive if you want to do so.

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I suggest we agree to make libsoup an exception though. That one is too 
great a risk to Fedora users. I actually did file a change proposal to 
remove that:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/libsoup_3:_Part_Two

But it was rejected. Well, it's been 3 years and the list of 
dependencies is much smaller now:

apvlv-0:0.6.0-4.fc43.x86_64
elementary-code-0:7.4.0-2.fc43.x86_64
exfalso-0:4.7.1-5.fc43.noarch
frogr-0:1.7-8.fc43.x86_64
libabiword-1:3.0.5-21.fc44.x86_64
libgda5-tools-1:5.2.10-24.fc43.x86_64
libgda5-web-1:5.2.10-24.fc43.x86_64
libgdata-0:0.18.1-15.fc43.x86_64
libgrss-0:0.7.0-23.fc43.x86_64
libmateweather-0:1.28.0-8.fc43.x86_64
libsoup-devel-0:2.74.3-9.fc43.x86_64
libtimezonemap-0:0.4.5.3-7.fc43.x86_64
logjam-1:4.6.2-38.fc43.x86_64
meteo-0:0.9.9.3-4.fc43.x86_64
osm-gps-map-0:1.2.0-2.fc43.x86_64
perl-HTTP-Soup-0:0.01-39.fc43.x86_64
pragha-0:1.3.3-32.fc43.x86_64
purple-chime-0:1.5-9.fc43.x86_64
rest0.7-0:0.8.1-10.fc43.x86_64
soup-sharp-0:2.42.2-14.20190810git0f36d10.fc43.x86_64
telepathy-salut-0:0.8.1-34.fc42.x86_64
vfrnav-0:20230429-25.fc43.x86_64
wike-0:3.1.1-2.fc43.noarch
xfce4-weather-plugin-0:0.11.3-4.fc43.x86_64

Hopefully we can orphan libsoup and avoid anybody else taking ownership 
of it.

Michael


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