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

Tue Aug 7 15:30:15 CEST 2012

* Pascal Terjan (pterjan at gmail.com) wrote:
+> On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Olivier Thauvin
+> <nanardon at nanardon.zarb.org> wrote:
+> > Hi,
+> >
+> > 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 If a system is obsolete with the new distribution and known to break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...
+
+Indeed, people are not notified, whereas currently packages are removed
+w/o any notification neither, I am not sure it is better.
+
+-- 
+
+Olivier Thauvin
+CNRS  -  LATMOS
+♖ ♘ ♗ ♕ ♔ ♗ ♘ ♖
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