[Mageia-dev] Task-obsolete and non-sense obsoletes

Tue Aug 7 13:31:13 CEST 2012

Hi,
+
+Many people already complain about it, but for me task-obsolete must
+die.
+
+First I just remove but urpmi claim it must come back on my system...
+probably because it claim to replace lib64db5.2, even maybe still need
+it.
+
+Secondly it contains non-sense dependencies:
+Obsoletes: lib64db5.2 < 5.2.42-3
+
+Any lib64db5.2 over this version will by definition obsoletes any
+packages having same name.
+So this mean anyone can keep the lib64db5.2 as soon the release tag
+is increased or someone push into mga 2 / update any libdb higher
+than 5.2.42 (5.2.43 for example).
+
+Moreover, any package lacking of requirements during an upgrade is
+removed by urpmi.
+
+I no-one complain, I'll do a major cleanup (eg removing everything at
+least everything starting by lib) in package this week
+
+But I am still in favor to remove it. In past, package we didn't want to
+support anymore was just removed from mirrors, and this was enough to
+show their status.
+
+Regards.
+
+-- 
+
+Olivier Thauvin
+CNRS  -  LATMOS
+♖ ♘ ♗ ♕ ♔ ♗ ♘ ♖
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