On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 03:58:17PM +0100, François Cami wrote:
 Hi,
 
 The Java maintainers have orphaned most, if not all, of the Java stack
 in Fedora, in favor of modules:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/java-devel@lists.fedoraproj...
 
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.o...
 
 As this change would lead into a lot of retired packages (maven and
 all that depends on it, like Dogtag), there was a proposal to create a
 SIG that would take care of these packages.
 It does not seem to have advanced much for the past month:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.o...
 
 And it seems unrealistic for the Dogtag and FreeIPA teams to take over
 all these packages.
 
 In the future packages will be able to BuildRequire modules:
 
https://tree.taiga.io/project/modularity-wg/epic/12
 but it is not possible yet and there is no ETA.
 
 The consequence is that Dogtag will be considered FTBFS as soon as
 maven and other dependencies are retired.
 Dogtag will therefore will be retired (along with FreeIPA) if
 maintenance for the dependencies is not picked up.
 
 There does not seem to be a good solution except by moving both Dogtag
 and FreeIPA to modules (where we could BR: existing modules) before
 Fedora releng starts to retire our packages.
 
 Thoughts?
 
 Cheers
 François
  
We are already in a module for RHEL 8.  I don't perceive any major
disadvantage if we have to move to modules in Fedora too.  Are there
any big reasons, from a user point of view, against moving to
modules?
Thanks,
Fraser
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