Fedora Retiring Its Deepin Desktop Packages
Fedora Linux has decided to retire its Deepin desktop packages due to ongoing security concerns and a lack of maintenance. This decision follows a similar move by SUSE, which removed its Deepin packages last year. The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee has agreed to retire all Deepin packages and will not consider unretiring them unless they pass a new review.
- ▪Fedora is retiring its Deepin desktop packages over security concerns.
- ▪SUSE previously removed its Deepin packages for similar reasons.
- ▪The decision was made by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee after difficulties in contacting Deepin package maintainers.
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Fedora Retiring Its Deepin Desktop Packages Written by Michael Larabel in Fedora on 19 May 2026 at 02:30 PM EDT. Add A Comment A year after SUSE decided to remove its Deepin desktop packages over ongoing security concerns, Fedora Linux is now also removing their Deepin packages over similar concerns and lack of activity in maintaining the packages. Opened a year ago was this FESCo ticket to conduct a Deepin security review request following the security revelations by SUSE/openSUSE. Over that time Fedora developers have had issues getting in touch with some of the Deepin package maintainers. Part of the issue though in deciding what to do with the Deepin packages has been lack of policy to clearly outline expectations.
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