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[Mageia-dev] Removing obsolete packages

+ andre999 + andre999mga at laposte.net +
+ Wed Nov 30 08:22:22 CET 2011 +

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nicolas vigier a écrit :
+> 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 ?
+>
+>    
+Great idea :)
+
+-- 
+André
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