Issue #1213: Consider dropping the Drupal 7 Guidelines - packaging-committee

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#1213 Consider dropping the Drupal 7 Guidelines

Closed: Fixed Nov 21, 2025 by tibbs. Opened Sep 25, 2022 by gotmax23.

The Drupal 7 Packaging guidelines have not been revised in over four years. The only commits since then were general cleanup commits that were applied to all of the docs. These guidelines are outdated (they still mention EPEL 5 and 6 and they use the Group tag in the example specfile). The formatting is very messed up; apparently, it was not fixed when the guidelines were imported from the wiki.

tibbs commented Sep 26, 2022

We actually discussed this at the last meeting and came to the conclusion that that page, and probably others should be dropped. It's just pending some human review and a PR at this point.

ferdnyc commented Nov 16, 2025

This becomes newly relevant since Drupal 7 reached end-of-life in January 2025. Honestly, we should probably be removing the package from Fedora, at this point.

Despite what the Drupal7 guidelines doc claims, there aren't any drupal modules packaged in Fedora now, and I wouldn't expect there to be any in the future. It's a guideline with no audience.

limb commented Nov 17, 2025

Speaking as an early but not-for-a-long-time Drupal packager, I support removing the guidelines and drupal7 package. @siwinski is the maintainer.

decathorpe commented Nov 17, 2025

+1 to just dropping the Drupal guidelines without replacement.

ferdnyc commented Nov 18, 2025

PR opened, #1503

siwinski commented Nov 19, 2025

Modules were retired long ago. I thought the base package was as well.

+1 to both dropping guidelines and retiring the package.

I will update the package to latest for non-rawhide (since there is 1 missing security update) and then retire rawhide.

tibbs commented Nov 21, 2025

Commit cb9fe28c fixes this issue