Hi
Retirement plans for other software are based on some period of time _after_ the release of a subsequent (eg second, third) release, not _before_.The current policy of retiring an FC release immediately _before_ the release of the second subsequent release seems completely bizarre to me.
You can post to fedora-devel list and ask the developers the reason. --Rahul
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