[Mageia-sysadm] Pkg removal request
Jani Välimaa
jani.valimaa at gmail.com
Thu Jun 7 21:36:57 CEST 2012
On 06.06.2012 18:11, nicolas vigier wrote:
> On Wed, 30 May 2012, Jani Välimaa wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> as I get some negative feedback by dropping pkgs with task-obsolete
>> previously, I decided to step back to old behaviour..
>>
>> Could someone please remove the following obsoleted pkgs from repos:
>> mousepad
>> xfprint
>> lib{,64}xfprint-devel
>> lib{,64}xfprint0
>
> What is the reason for removing them ?
>
> If it is software that we want to remove from the distribution, then it
> should be obsoleted by task-obsolete.
>
> https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packaging_guidelines#Obsoleting_a_package
>
Both seems to be dead in upstream. Other distros are also removed or
removing them from their repos.
Well, I guess I'll add them then to task-obsolete and won't care if
someone rants about obsoleting libs and/or preventing users installing
pkgs from their own sources..
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