On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 8:52 AM Martin Curlej <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > EOL and Obsoletes were planned as a feature of Modularity. The feature > should enable to set shorter/longer life cycles on Modules than the OS > release. The initial idea was to set this information in the disgit > metadata of a Module. As time went by the requirements have changed. > > From my point of view right now it seems that this information should not > be a part of the module (disgit, repository metadata). It is prone to human > error when we leave this in the hands of a packager. So this would need a > review of Engineering to be reliable. > > Next is that a lot of 3rd parties like to handle the EOL and Obsoletes of > packages/modules by other means, which makes this redundant. Also, as the > release cycle of Fedora is so fast, I am not sure this is a necessary > feature at all > > I spoke to people in the community and I got mixed information/opinions, > so I want to open a discussion about this feature. So WDYT? Is this > necessary for Fedora? If yes, how should we handle this? > At the end of the day for Fedora, packagers are maintaining the modules, so they should be able to mark a module as EOL when they feel like they don't want it in the distribution anymore. As for module obsoletes, this is necessary for supporting transitions and upgrades, which broke *two* Fedora release upgrades because there was no way to handle this. Additionally, with my third-party packager hat on, I need these to be declarable in the module metadata so that it's easy to convey in a machine-enforceable way when something is maintained/supported or not. I don't know which third-parties you've been talking to, but as an actual third-party packager who does work for an ISV that supports Fedora and RHEL/CentOS for a product, I don't know where else I would put it. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth!
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