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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] Task-obsolete and non-sense obsoletes</H1>
    <B>Olivier Thauvin</B> 
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    <I>Tue Aug  7 15:30:15 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>* Pascal Terjan (<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">pterjan at gmail.com</A>) wrote:
&gt;<i> On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Olivier Thauvin
</I>&gt;<i> &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">nanardon at nanardon.zarb.org</A>&gt; wrote:
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; Hi,
</I>&gt;<i> &gt;
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; But I am still in favor to remove it. In past, package we didn't want to
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; support anymore was just removed from mirrors, and this was enough to
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; show their status.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> But people will not be notified of it.
</I>&gt;<i> If a system is obsolete with the new distribution and known to break
</I>&gt;<i> things/contain major security problems, I think having a place to put
</I>&gt;<i> the obsoletes is good.
</I>&gt;<i> But really I wouldn't expect more than 2 or 3 such packages in a release...
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Indeed, people are not notified, whereas currently packages are removed
w/o any notification neither, I am not sure it is better.

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Olivier Thauvin
CNRS  -  LATMOS
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