[Mageia-dev] Removal of sun java

Fri Mar 30 17:51:35 CEST 2012

Am 30.03.2012 17:39, schrieb Maarten Vanraes:
+> Op vrijdag 30 maart 2012 16:00:22 schreef nicolas vigier:
+> [...]
+>> I think an empty package is not a good idea, it would be better to
+>> obsolete it in task-obsolete :
+>>   - it's more clear that the package is obsoleted and is not a regular
+>>     update. Users installing an empty package as update would only see that
+>>     it is removed but not updated when it's already removed.
+>>   - package is really removed and no longer listed as installed in rpm
+>>     database
+>>   - it's easy to add task-obsolete in urpmi skip.list for people who
+>>     don't want unmaintained packages to be automatically removed
+>
+> wrt to task-obsolete, do the users get notified?
+>
+> maybe a README.urpmi listing all the packages and reasons would be an option
+> to get notified?
+And how do you decide, when to put which warning in it?
+If you leave a warnign in it for too long, the user will get notified 
+again and again and again on each update of task-obsolete.
+If you change the warnings every release of task-obsolte a user not 
+updating frequently will miss some.
+
+But in this case, why not replacing the java sun packages by an empty 
+package obsoleting the whole java sun stack <= our last package and 
+showing the information via README.urpmi file and obsoleting that 
+package in say two months so it will be completely gone?
+
+Oliver
+