[CentOS-devel] freetype package missed in repo

Thu Aug 5 15:08:26 UTC 2021
Carl George <carl at redhat.com>

On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 9:51 AM Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 9:03 PM Carl George <carl at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 7:01 AM Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > > > I see it here
> > > >
> > > > https://koji.mbox.centos.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=408
> > > >
> > > > but not on the mirrors ...
> > > >
> > > > A retired package?
> > >
> > > Not retired, just a build that will never be shipped at this point.
> > >
> > > josh
>
> Since it was published at one time, and has now been deleted from the
> public repos with extreme prejudice, in what way is this not
> "retired"?
>
> I admit this is a first. I've never seen Red Hat or CentOS pull this
> stunt. Has this *ever* been done before?
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Retired would be if the package was removed entirely.  `dnf install
freetype` still works, therefore the package is not retired.

The 2.9.1-5 build is identical to the 2.9.1-4.el8_3.1 build.  We
removed the duplicate (which follows what happened in the RHEL nightly
compose).  Why is this so upsetting to you?

-- 
Carl George