I think it's reasonable to close retired packages to bugs, but deleting them is probibly a bad idea.

I'm not sure if it's possible for our sync script to do this, but we can take a look.

Thanks for the report.

A newbie user can report a bug to retired package [1], for example this one said "But, as Vashirov has the bug, and he is the master of all orphans, redhat won't be of much help." [2]

We should avoid zombie bugs I think

[1]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_activity.cgi?id=1663047

[2]
https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectm/issues/138#issue-395385340

I agree it would be nice to close retired components to new bugs... but I think deleting them would be bad because:

• Someone might bring the package back and want to see the old bugs and if they are now fixed.
• Some bugs may be historically significant (ie, blocker bugs or bugs pointed to by discussions)

Anyhow, we will see if we can add something to close retired packages to new bugs.

I agree it would be nice to close retired components to new bugs...

yes, maybe do a bugzilla (new) feature, isn't it ?

Fixed in https://pagure.io/Fedora-Infra/distgit-bugzilla-sync/pull-request/31

yes, maybe do a bugzilla (new) feature, isn't it ?

This seems to already be a supported feature of bugzilla, we can de-active a component which hides it from the list of components (packages) against which one can open bugs.

Hi, good new
So please de-active modules projectM-libvisual, projectM-jack, projectM-pulseaudio and libprojectM-qt

Thank you.

Dupe #8707.

Fixed in https://pagure.io/Fedora-Infra/distgit-bugzilla-sync/pull-request/48

Commit abf7b7f7 fixes this issue