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    <B>Michel Catudal</B> 
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    <I>Wed Nov 30 02:44:47 CET 2011</I>
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<PRE>Le 29/11/2011 19:40, Funda Wang a &#233;crit :
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</I>&gt;<i> Does the idea include removing srpm also?
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</I>&gt;<i> &#22312; 2011-11-30 &#19978;&#21320;2:07&#65292;&quot;nicolas vigier&quot; &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">boklm at mars-attacks.org</A> &lt;mailto:<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">boklm at mars-attacks.org</A>&gt;&gt; &#20889;&#36947;&#65306;
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</I>&gt;<i>     Hello,
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</I>&gt;<i>     When a package is no longer supported, without being replaced by an
</I>&gt;<i>     other package, and needs to be removed from the distribution, the
</I>&gt;<i>     current procedure is :
</I>&gt;<i>      - move the package on svn to obsolete directory
</I>&gt;<i>      - ask a sysadmin to manually remove the package from repositories
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</I>&gt;<i>     Instead of asking a sysadmin to do it, I propose that we create a
</I>&gt;<i>     package task-obsolete, with obsoletes on all packages that need to be
</I>&gt;<i>     removed, so that the removing of the package will be done by youri.
</I>&gt;<i>     I think it would be better :
</I>&gt;<i>      - anybody with commit access can do it without asking a sysadmin
</I>&gt;<i>      - we can have a list and logs of packages dropped since previous Mageia
</I>&gt;<i>       release, which can be useful when writting release notes
</I>&gt;<i>      - users who don't want to keep unsupported packages installed on their
</I>&gt;<i>       system can install the package to remove them
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i>     What do you think ?
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>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

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