[Mageia-dev] Removing obsolete packages

Wed Nov 30 08:21:00 CET 2011

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).
+
+-- 
+André
+
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