[Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release task-obsolete-3-21.mga3

Wed Aug 1 16:38:00 CEST 2012

On 1 August 2012 16:29, Olivier Thauvin <nanardon at nanardon.zarb.org> wrote:
+>> >> Within mageia, libreoffice packages are supposed to replace old
+>> >> openoffice packages, so obsoletes are needed.
+>> >
+>> > Unless they are effective file conflict, and libreoffice can't be installed
+>> > simultaneously, I see no actual reason to force its removal.
+>>
+>> They do conflicts.
+>> We do not maintain it anymore.
+>> We do no want to have bugs reports about package Y on mgaX about
+>> packages "that were obviously build by mga" (yes but for mgaX-10).
+>
+> Yes but:
+> - it's up to packagers to point the package is not supported anymore (as
+>   it is not on mirrors)
+> - the obsolete should be in the package that replace the previous one
+>   (the word 'replace' is important)
+
+Agreed.
+
+> - it is really a bad practice to choose for users what is good or not.
+
+Well, in the libreoffice case, this was well documented (and anyway, OO wasn't
+even supported upstream for ~ 2 years)
+For the db case, it's about a older version of a low level library that never
+went into a released version.
+The end user doesn't care whether it's apps are builded against libdb-5.2,
+or 5.3 (even more since 5.2 was only available in cauldron)
+