[Mageia-dev] draksnapshot, possible fix for a 30 duplicates bug

Mon Jul 2 09:56:54 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Samuel Verschelde at 02/07/12 08:38 did gyre and gimble:
+> Le dimanche 1 juillet 2012 23:08:55 Thomas Backlund a écrit :
+>> 01.07.2012 23:05, Jani Välimaa skrev:
+>>> On 01.07.2012 23:03, Manuel Hiebel wrote:
+>>>> Hello can somebody please make an update to fix draksnapshot easily ?
+>>>> The idea is to add a require/suggest to hal as asking in the bug.
+>>>>
+>>>> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3032
+>>>>
+>>>> So someone for do that ? thanks.
+>>>
+>>> How about dropping the whole draksnapshot (starting from mga3)?
+>>
+>> That was the intention for mga2 too, and removed it from the mirrors,
+>> but during rc/final testing we realized some of the drakx tools expected
+>> the code to be there in order to be rebuilt, so we had to
+>> reintroduce the rpms to get mga2 out.
+>>
+>> so we need to fix that dep first.
+> 
+> So we could add the suggests for mga2 and plan removal for mga3? (although if 
+> people report bugs against it, it means they use it... So maybe we should not 
+> remove it after all?)
+
+Well people using it is half the puzzle... people willing to maintain it
+is the other half! If someone steps up to maintain it, I'm sure we'd
+happily still include it!
+
+Col
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