[Mageia-dev] Package drop request: ruby-ParseTree

Mon Dec 10 15:55:05 CET 2012

Le 10/12/2012 14:01, Colin Guthrie a écrit :
+> I see absolutely no problem with this and I don't consider this
+> something that's done as a "side effect", rather it's a quite deliberate
+> and concious mechanism to remove no longer supported packages from a
+> users machine.
+Shikamaru never asked about end user machines, but about mirrors. Hence 
+my point:
+- if you just want to remove some files from the mirrors, ask an admin
+- if you also want to remove old packages from end users machines, first 
+think twice about the expected result, then update task-obsolete
+
+And on the more general interest of using obsolete tags, I'd rather 
+suggest to refrain from using them without a very good reason. In ten 
+years of contribution, I've never seen the mandriva bugzilla drowned by 
+bug reports about unsupported packages (the main argument in support of 
+the current 'thou shall obsoletes anything that is not supported 
+anymore' frenzy), whereas I've seen at least two recent painful episodes 
+in cauldron caused by careless packagers...
+
+-- 
+BOFH excuse #234:
+
+Someone is broadcasting pygmy packets and the router doesn't know how to 
+deal with them.
+