[Mageia-dev] Removing obsolete packages

Wed Nov 30 02:44:47 CET 2011

Le 29/11/2011 19:40, Funda Wang a écrit :
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+> 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
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