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+ <B>nicolas vigier</B>
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+ <I>Mon Aug 13 17:49:33 CEST 2012</I>
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+<PRE>On Tue, 07 Aug 2012, Pascal Terjan wrote:
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+&gt;<i> On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Olivier Thauvin
+</I>&gt;<i> &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">nanardon at nanardon.zarb.org</A>&gt; wrote:
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; Hi,
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt;
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; Many people already complain about it, but for me task-obsolete must
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; die.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> I don't think so, but people should not be allowed to add random
+</I>&gt;<i> obsoletes there.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; First I just remove but urpmi claim it must come back on my system...
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; probably because it claim to replace lib64db5.2, even maybe still need
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; it.
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt;
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; Secondly it contains non-sense dependencies:
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; Obsoletes: lib64db5.2 &lt; 5.2.42-3
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt;
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; Any lib64db5.2 over this version will by definition obsoletes any
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; packages having same name.
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; So this mean anyone can keep the lib64db5.2 as soon the release tag
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; is increased or someone push into mga 2 / update any libdb higher
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; than 5.2.42 (5.2.43 for example).
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt;
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; Moreover, any package lacking of requirements during an upgrade is
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; removed by urpmi.
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt;
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; I no-one complain, I'll do a major cleanup (eg removing everything at
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; least everything starting by lib) in package this week
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt;
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; But I am still in favor to remove it. In past, package we didn't want to
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; support anymore was just removed from mirrors, and this was enough to
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; show their status.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> But people will not be notified of it.
+</I>&gt;<i> If a system is obsolete with the new distribution and known to break
+</I>&gt;<i> things/contain major security problems, I think having a place to put
+</I>&gt;<i> the obsoletes is good.
+</I>&gt;<i> But really I wouldn't expect more than 2 or 3 such packages in a release...
+</I>
+Maybe we could change task-obsolete to conflict with obsolete packages
+instead of obsoleting them :
+- people who want to remove unsupported packages from their system
+ install task-obsolete
+- people who don't want to remove unsupported packages don't install
+ task-obsolete
+
+This will also make urpmi/rpmdrake warn before removing packages,
+instead of silently removing them.
+
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