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+ <B>Jani V&#228;limaa</B>
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+ <I>Fri Jun 8 10:35:11 CEST 2012</I>
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+<PRE>2012/6/7 Sander Lepik &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-sysadm">sander.lepik at eesti.ee</A>&gt;:
+&gt;<i> 07.06.2012 22:36, Jani V&#228;limaa kirjutas:
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> On 06.06.2012 18:11, nicolas vigier wrote:
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> On Wed, 30 May 2012, Jani V&#228;limaa wrote:
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> Hi,
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> as I get some negative feedback by dropping pkgs with task-obsolete
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> previously, I decided to step back to old behaviour..
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> Could someone please remove the following obsoleted pkgs from repos:
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> mousepad
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> xfprint
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> lib{,64}xfprint-devel
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> lib{,64}xfprint0
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> What is the reason for removing them ?
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> If it is software that we want to remove from the distribution, then it
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> should be obsoleted by task-obsolete.
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> <A HREF="https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packaging_guidelines#Obsoleting_a_package">https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packaging_guidelines#Obsoleting_a_package</A>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Both seems to be dead in upstream. Other distros are also removed or
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> removing them from their repos.
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Well, I guess I'll add them then to task-obsolete and won't care if
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> someone rants about obsoleting libs and/or preventing users installing
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> pkgs from their own sources..
+</I>&gt;<i> xfprint should be obsoleted. Not libs, libs should be removed by sysadmins, so users who
+</I>&gt;<i> have them can still keep them.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>
+IMHO same applies for other pkgs too, we shouldn't force removal of
+pkg unless there is some other pkg which replaces the first one.
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