Bug 2117173

Summary:	Proposal to retire the rubygem-memcache-client
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Vít Ondruch <vondruch>
Component:	rubygem-memcache-client	Assignee:	Orphan Owner <extras-orphan>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	mo, tdawson
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Description Vít Ondruch 2022-08-10 08:38:30 UTC

Description of problem:
The rubygem-memcache-client is leaf package and it is not required by anything in Fedora:

~~~
$ sudo dnf repoquery -q --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=rawhide --whatrequires "rubygem(memcache-client)" --whatrequires "rubygem-memcache-client"

$ sudo dnf repoquery -q --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=rawhide-source --arch src --whatrequires "rubygem(memcache-client)" --whatrequires "rubygem-memcache-client"
rubygem-rack-1:2.2.3-8.fc37.src
~~~

Where the last occurrence was removed by [1] and it waits just for successful compose.

Because of that and mainly because memcache-client is deprecated upstream for ~12 years [2] and upstream suggest to use Dalli instead [3], I propose to orphan/retire this package from Fedora.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rubygem-memcache-client-1.8.5-25.fc37


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Additional info:
I don't think there is official policy to retire such packages from Fedora, but I have started discussion on devel list [4] and I think that it would be reasonable to wait ~4 weeks for a feedback prior I'll take further action.



[1] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/rubygem-rack/c/7490abe4066b965d222764acf0ae164788cf1721?branch=rawhide
[2] https://github.com/mperham/memcache-client/commit/42a9472782f7d2919b4064e8dc918aecc69c5cb6
[3] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/rubygem-dalli
[4] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/TAVGX6HWRM5LT7J6XESDS7SWJOIL2VHX/

Comment 1 Vít Ondruch 2022-08-10 08:43:51 UTC

Fedora devel announcement:

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/Q5DIHM4NENA5G4RHDFT77RCKUQRQ2KFQ/

Comment 2 Fedora Admin user for bugzilla script actions 2022-11-30 00:10:50 UTC

This package has changed maintainer in Fedora. Reassigning to the new maintainer of this component.

Comment 3 Miro Hrončok 2023-01-12 12:37:16 UTC

Automation has figured out the package is retired in rawhide.

If you like it to be unretired, please open a ticket at https://pagure.io/releng/new_issue?template=package_unretirement