[Mageia-dev] Un-cleaned drak packages

Fri May 27 22:04:57 CEST 2011

On 27 May 2011 21:58, David W. Hodgins <davidwhodgins at gmail.com> wrote:
+> On Fri, 27 May 2011 13:08:33 -0400, Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com>
+> wrote:
+>
+>> Right now there're 3 packages that were imported without cleaning:
+>> drakstats
+>> drakwizard
+>> drakfax
+>> They should be reviewed before release, and either get cleaned (if
+>> needed) or removed from the repos until they're cleaned.
+>
+> Isn't it a bit late to be removing packages?
+>
+> How will this impact upgrading from 2010.2?
+>
+> Since those packages are no longer available, will the existing
+> mandriva versions get removed, or will they be left to block upgrades,
+> as they have mandriva dependencies?
+>
+> In my opinion, they should be left in, with an errata entry stating
+> that they still need cleaning.
+>
+> Regards, Dave Hodgins
+>
+
+No can do; if they're not cleaned they can't be in the official repos
+due to copyright/trademarks/legal-soup issues.
+
+Anyway, status update:
+o drakwizard: cleaned by Anne and is good to go
+o drakfax: the code hasn't been touched in ~2years, so it's been
+removed from the repos as it's not really supported
+o drakstats: it needs server-side support, this isn't viable for
+Mageia 1; so it's been removed for now, until such a time that support
+is implemented in the Mageia servers.
+
+
+After upgrading drakfax will be considered, by urpmi, as an orphan
+package as it's not required/suggested by anything any more. As for
+drakstats, nothing suggests/requires it already, users who have it,
+will have to remove it manually, though maybe something should
+obsolete for now... (I'll ask on IRC).
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+