[Mageia-dev] halectomy and policykitectomy (Re: [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release task-obsolete-3-27.mga3)

Tue Sep 25 11:49:45 CEST 2012

blino <buildsystem-daemon at mageia.org> writes:
+
+> Summary     : Meta package obsoleting old packages
+> Description :
+> This package is used to obsolete packages that are no longer supported.
+>
+> blino <blino> 3-27.mga3:
+> + Revision: 297306
+> - obsolete hal and hal-info, replaced by udisks and later by udisks2
+
+hal was pulled by:
+- sugar: dropped the dep, since sugar is using gio/gvfs
+- usb-imagewriter: added a patch from Ubuntu to use udisks instead (no
+  udisks2 yet...)
+- draksnapshot: fixed a crash when hal was not running (#3032) and
+  opened a reminder bug about migration to udisks2 (#7565)
+
+> - obsolete policykit, replaced by polkit
+
+policykit has been replaced by polkit quite some time ago.
+We still had a few users:
+- python-slip (pulled by sectool, which is used by msec): only a
+  requires had to be fixed
+- hal: taken care of above
+
+So, both hal and policykit are now obsoleted by task-obsolete.
+
+I guess policykit could be made obsolete by the polkit package instead,
+but hal has no real full replacement, so the obsolete tag can belong to
+task-obsolete.
+
+Should we explicitely obsolete the library packages as well or should we
+let them be handled by the orphans feature of urpme?
+
+Next step will be udisksectomy! (udisks1)
+
+-- 
+Olivier Blin - blino
+