I want to ask you for approval to remove from Fedora packages that have a license that is not allowed in Fedora.
As part of the migration to SPDX IDs, we discovered that a bunch of packages use a license that could not be allowed in Fedora Linux. All these issues are tracked in this tracking BZ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2310597 Many maintainers responded and either retired the packages or removed the parts covered by a problematic license. But as of today, there are a few packages without any response:
I want to ask you for approval to retire these packages (in case of scapy, just remove the subpackage).
I am already proven packager so technically I have access rights to do that and I do not need anything else. I am looking for review of this step and approval if this is correct thing to do it.
Note that removal of libieee1284 will break following packages: libsane-hpaio, sane-backends-drivers-cameras, sane-backends-drivers-scanners
I'd say: - please drop the scapy-doc subpackage as provenpackager. This falls into the "maintainer does not resolve bugs in time" and it's also a fairly obvious bugfix with little practical downsides. - libieee1284 seems to be a misunderstanding and/or also a problem for the kernel package. This is just a header file, so maybe the interface is covered by some exception. Anyway, this seems to be a minor issue, not enough of a reason to drop the package. - iscan-firmware: I submitted a PR to drop the bad parts. Please review. If there's no response from the package owner I think it too would be fine to merge this as provenpackagers.
scapy-doc
libieee1284
iscan-firmware
Metadata Update from @fale: - Issue tagged with: meeting
Metadata Update from @fale: - Issue close_status updated to: Accepted - Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
"The only package that still needs work is 'scapy'. We ask one of the maintainers or msuchy to drop the scapy-doc subpackage." (+8, 0, -0)
Metadata Update from @fale: - Issue status updated to: Open (was: Closed)
Metadata Update from @fale: - Issue untagged with: meeting
scapy resolved by https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/scapy/pull-request/8
Metadata Update from @zbyszek: - Issue close_status updated to: Invalid - Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
All three packages are now fixed.
Metadata Update from @zbyszek: - Issue status updated to: Open (was: Closed)
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