Re: Intent to orphan obsolete gnome-sig packages

On Thu, Aug 28, 2025 at 9:34 PM Michael Catanzaro <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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.

I totally understand the motive and I am all for removing critical,
unmaintained software.
However, over the years, I've managed to get quite a few non-technical
people to use gpg. While these people don't know they're using gpg
(actually gpg2), seahorse-nautilus allows them to encrypt and sign
files in a user-friendly manner that's also tied into their desktop
environment (think key selection). If someone finds the time to
package something like GpgFrontend and that proves to be as
straightforward in its use as the seahorse - seahorse-nautilus combo,
I'll happily ditch the package at the next minute (and bite the bullet
and transition all those people over to the new way of doing things).
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