[Mageia-sysadm] Pkg removal request

Fri Jun 8 12:37:53 CEST 2012

On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Jani Välimaa <jani.valimaa at gmail.com> wrote:
+> 2012/6/7 Sander Lepik <sander.lepik at eesti.ee>:
+>> 07.06.2012 22:36, Jani Välimaa kirjutas:
+>>> On 06.06.2012 18:11, nicolas vigier wrote:
+>>>> On Wed, 30 May 2012, Jani Välimaa wrote:
+>>>>
+>>>>> Hi,
+>>>>>
+>>>>> as I get some negative feedback by dropping pkgs with task-obsolete
+>>>>> previously, I decided to step back to old behaviour..
+>>>>>
+>>>>> Could someone please remove the following obsoleted pkgs from repos:
+>>>>> mousepad
+>>>>> xfprint
+>>>>> lib{,64}xfprint-devel
+>>>>> lib{,64}xfprint0
+>>>> What is the reason for removing them ?
+>>>>
+>>>> If it is software that we want to remove from the distribution, then it
+>>>> should be obsoleted by task-obsolete.
+>>>>
+>>>> https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packaging_guidelines#Obsoleting_a_package
+>>>>
+>>> Both seems to be dead in upstream. Other distros are also removed or
+>>> removing them from their repos.
+>>>
+>>> Well, I guess I'll add them then to task-obsolete and won't care if
+>>> someone rants about obsoleting libs and/or preventing users installing
+>>> pkgs from their own sources..
+>> xfprint should be obsoleted. Not libs, libs should be removed by sysadmins, so users who
+>> have them can still keep them.
+>>
+>
+> IMHO same applies for other pkgs too, we shouldn't force removal of
+> pkg unless there is some other pkg which replaces the first one.
+
+Well there are some other cases
+- Package contains a security problem which will never get fixed
+- App has no way to ever work on future versions of the distro (due to
+being dependant on obsolete stuff)
+
+I think these are the case when task-obsolete is useful
+