[Mageia-dev] Removing obsolete packages

Thu Dec 1 01:49:29 CET 2011

Le 30/11/2011 02:21, andre999 a écrit :
+> Michel Catudal a écrit :
+>> Le 29/11/2011 19:40, Funda Wang a écrit :
+>>>
+>>> Does the idea include removing srpm also?
+>>>
+>>> 在 2011-11-30 上午2:07，"nicolas vigier" <boklm at mars-attacks.org <mailto:boklm at mars-attacks.org>> 写道：
+>>>
+>>>     Hello,
+>>>
+>>>     When a package is no longer supported, without being replaced by an
+>>>     other package, and needs to be removed from the distribution, the
+>>>     current procedure is :
+>>>      - move the package on svn to obsolete directory
+>>>      - ask a sysadmin to manually remove the package from repositories
+>>>
+>>>     Instead of asking a sysadmin to do it, I propose that we create a
+>>>     package task-obsolete, with obsoletes on all packages that need to be
+>>>     removed, so that the removing of the package will be done by youri.
+>>>     I think it would be better :
+>>>      - anybody with commit access can do it without asking a sysadmin
+>>>      - we can have a list and logs of packages dropped since previous Mageia
+>>>       release, which can be useful when writting release notes
+>>>      - users who don't want to keep unsupported packages installed on their
+>>>       system can install the package to remove them
+>>>
+>>>     What do you think ?
+>>>
+>> How about putting back previously unsupported packages? The only text editor that I use is joe and someone has decided to remove it from Mageia.
+>> I took the Redhat Enterprise version and ported it to mageia. For a while the maintainers of joe has incorporated a bug that would make it such that it would core dump if you tried to open more than one file at a time.
+>> I am willing to maintain this package.
+>>
+>> Michel
+>>
+> No problem, since you are willing to maintain it, as long as it makes it past QA.
+> (Which means the core dump problem would have to be solved, if not already.)
+>
+> It would be  an update to cauldron, and a backport for Mageia 1 (unless it was in Mandriva 2010.1/2, in which case it would be an update).
+>
+I think that the one in Mandriva core dumped. It doesn't on Centos, Scientific Linux or Fedora 15.
+I would not update it to anything that core dumps. This was not just a problem on Mandriva but also on Ubuntu, SuSE and Fedora. I don't understand why some people thinks that when it has compiled, it is done considering that this particular core dump was 
+very obvious.
+
+Michel
+
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