[Mageia-sysadm] Pkg removal request

[nicolas vigier]

On Fri, 08 Jun 2012, Pascal Terjan wrote:

> 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

All software that we remove from the distribution may have security
problems in the future that won't get fixed. So I think we should
obsolete them. People who want to continue using them can still add
task-obsolete to /etc/urpmi/skip.list.