[Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release task-obsolete-3-1.mga3

Tue May 29 17:54:01 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Jani Välimaa at 29/05/12 16:13 did gyre and gimble:
+> On 29.05.2012 17:38, Sander Lepik wrote:
+>> 29.05.2012 17:14, wally kirjutas:
+>>> Name        : task-obsolete                Relocations: (not relocatable)
+>>> Version     : 3                                 Vendor: Mageia.Org
+>>> Release     : 1.mga3                        Build Date: Tue May 29
+>>> 15:59:18 2012
+>>> [...]
+>>>
+>>> wally <wally> 3-1.mga3:
+>>> + Revision: 249259
+>>> - obsolete old libxfce4menu pkgs
+>> Hmm, since when do we obsolete libs like this?
+>>
+> 
+> Since task-obsolete was introduced. It's a way to get rid of old,
+> obsoleted and unused pkgs which are also removed from SVN (moved to
+> /packages/obsolete/).
+
+I wasn't aware we ever did this and I can't think of a good reason to do
+so either so I would prefer this change was reverted (and any other old
+libs in there similarly removed from obsoletion).
+
+There is a difference between no longer shipping something and no longer
+supporting it being installed. If I've compiled my own software against
+any given library I do not want something to remove it automatically and
+break my build. That's the whole point in having library packaging the
+way we do - to allow them to live on mostly forever on an installed
+system. If we no longer support something being installed then using
+task-obsoletes seems wise.
+
+Users are then responsible for removing old library packages they no
+longer want from their system using either the urpme --auto-orphans or
+urpmq --not-available.
+
+Maybe I've misunderstood the intention here, and if so feel free to
+correct me!
+
+Col
+
+
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