[CentOS-devel] SCL packages in CentOS 7 that are expired and EOL

[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 5:26 PM Phil Perry <pperry at elrepo.org> wrote:
>
> On 14/05/2019 17:55, John R. Dennison wrote:
> > On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 12:12:09PM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> >> OK, that addresses my legacy access concerns, and there is a
> >> "repodata" there to support yum access as needed. Yeah, I'd be on
> >> board with migrating the obsolete components to that repo.
> >
> > Awesome.  Now that the project has your approval it can proceed, this is
> > great news!
>
> John,
>
> I had hoped that the days of these kind of facetious comments in open
> source communities were well and truly behind us and that we had entered
> an era where we could all demonstrate respect towards each other and
> contribute in a positive and constructive manner. Please, let us not
> return to the ways of the past.

I'd merely taken that as slightly exasperated mocking that I'd taken
so long to convince, not as a personal denigration.

John, I'd meant "Yeah, I'd be on board" as a friendly acknowledgement
that this would address my legacy software access concerns, not a
claim that it needs my personal approval.

Now, with all that in mind: Should there be some kind of comment.
Should there be some kind of acknowledgement in the CentOS-Vault repo
along with a pointer to such a repository of "these are so dangerously
obsolete that we've overridden RHEL's publication of the original sclo
channel and decided to shut these elsewhere"? What would such a
channel be called? Would its contents be left permanently in the
"obsolete" channel?