Describe the issue The gold linker (part of the binutils package) is being deprecated in the upstream GNU Binutils project. This ticket is to tell releng about the plans to deprecate the linker in rawhide.
When do you need this? Ideally before the Fedora 44 branch. ie: 2026-02-03
When is this no longer needed or useful? After the binutils-gold subpackage is deleted from Fedora. Which will probably be after the Fedora 44 release. ie: 2026-04-21
If we cannot complete your request, what is the impact? The gold linker will have to remain a sub-package of the binutils package, and be maintained downstream in Fedora.
I assume this is a releng notification ticket created for this pending Change Proposal? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DeprecateGoldLinker
Correct. I am just finalizing the Change Proposal now and it should become active soon.
as we talked about this in fedora daily meeting, this shouldn't have any releng impact. Thanks
Metadata Update from @phsmoura: - Issue close_status updated to: It's all good - Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
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