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

Tue Aug 7 13:39:51 CEST 2012

On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Olivier Thauvin
+<nanardon at nanardon.zarb.org> wrote:
+> Hi,
+>
+> Many people already complain about it, but for me task-obsolete must
+> die.
+
+I don't think so, but people should not be allowed to add random
+obsoletes there.
+
+> 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.
+
+But people will not be notified of it.
+If a system is obsolete with the new distribution and known to break
+things/contain major security problems, I think having a place to put
+the obsoletes is good.
+But really I wouldn't expect more than 2 or 3 such packages in a release...
+