[Mageia-dev] Package removal proposal

Sat Aug 25 02:33:31 CEST 2012

* Guillaume Rousse (guillomovitch at gmail.com) wrote:
+> Le 24/08/2012 17:04, Olivier Blin a écrit :
+> >>Agreed. Hence the point of writing the procedure somewhere.
+> >
+> >You mean like already done here? :)
+> >https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packaging_guidelines#Obsoleting_a_package
+> Ah, great. Excepted that I disagree with the 'thou shall force users
+> to remove the package also', by using obsolete tags.
+
+I disagree with this suggest: it is not because the packager want to
+drop the package from the distribution the package must be drop from all
+computer around the world.
+
+Moreover we take the risk to match a completelly unrelated package (git
+is one the notable example, before being a VCS it was a set tools).
+
+For me obsolete should be reserved for replacements or rename, nothing
+more.
+
+BTW: I don't understand the need of versionned obsolete (why the <=
+cauldron version).
+
+Regards.
+
+-- 
+
+Olivier Thauvin
+CNRS  -  LATMOS
+♖ ♘ ♗ ♕ ♔ ♗ ♘ ♖
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