Dear list,
as indicated by $subject, I intend to start cleaning up our rubygem rpm
packages. The development project devel:languages:ruby:extensions grew
over the past decade into a huge mess with far too many outdated, no
longer building, uninstallable and downright broken rpms. This causes a
lot of strain on OBS as it rebuilds many unusable packages and for us to
keep packages building for questionable benefit. We (=the ruby team, at
this point that is darix and myself) cannot maintain the current state
anymore.
Therefore I plan to execute the following two phase plan.
Phase I - December 2023
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Delete all packages from d:l:r:e that are not linked into another
project and that do not have a maintainer set (the project wide
maintainer does not count).
If you depend on a gem that is in d:l:r:e *only* and *not* in Factory,
please take over maintenance of it and consider sending it to Factory.
Phase II - January 2024
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We will start deleting leaf packages in Factory that originate in
d:l:r:e and have no package maintainer set.
If you are depending on a rubygem being available as an rpm, then please
take over maintenance for it. Otherwise there is a certain risk that it
will be gone from Tumbleweed.
Thank you for your understanding,
Dan
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Dan Čermák
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