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<H1>[Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release task-obsolete-3-1.mga3</H1>
<B>Colin Guthrie</B>
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<I>Tue May 29 17:54:01 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>'Twas brillig, and Jani Välimaa at 29/05/12 16:13 did gyre and gimble:
><i> On 29.05.2012 17:38, Sander Lepik wrote:
</I>>><i> 29.05.2012 17:14, wally kirjutas:
</I>>>><i> Name : task-obsolete Relocations: (not relocatable)
</I>>>><i> Version : 3 Vendor: Mageia.Org
</I>>>><i> Release : 1.mga3 Build Date: Tue May 29
</I>>>><i> 15:59:18 2012
</I>>>><i> [...]
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</I>>>><i> wally <wally> 3-1.mga3:
</I>>>><i> + Revision: 249259
</I>>>><i> - obsolete old libxfce4menu pkgs
</I>>><i> Hmm, since when do we obsolete libs like this?
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</I>><i>
</I>><i> Since task-obsolete was introduced. It's a way to get rid of old,
</I>><i> obsoleted and unused pkgs which are also removed from SVN (moved to
</I>><i> /packages/obsolete/).
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I wasn't aware we ever did this and I can't think of a good reason to do
so either so I would prefer this change was reverted (and any other old
libs in there similarly removed from obsoletion).
There is a difference between no longer shipping something and no longer
supporting it being installed. If I've compiled my own software against
any given library I do not want something to remove it automatically and
break my build. That's the whole point in having library packaging the
way we do - to allow them to live on mostly forever on an installed
system. If we no longer support something being installed then using
task-obsoletes seems wise.
Users are then responsible for removing old library packages they no
longer want from their system using either the urpme --auto-orphans or
urpmq --not-available.
Maybe I've misunderstood the intention here, and if so feel free to
correct me!
Col
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