[Mageia-dev] How is the obsoleted binaries be removed?

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Funda Wang at 30/06/11 00:11 did gyre and gimble:
> 2011/6/30 Dexter Morgan <dmorganec at gmail.com>:
>> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Zé <mmodem00 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 2011/6/27 Funda Wang <fundawang at gmail.com>:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> How is the obsoleted binaries be removed currently in Mageia? Does the
>>>> maintainer need to call for this? If yes, please remove
>>>> lib{,64}devhelp-2_1 from cauldron.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>> whats current problem?
>>>
>>> You can obsolete it through BS, add an entry in the spec about it.
>>>
>>
>> our policy is to not obsolete libs.
> Then the repository will contain a lot of orphan libs.

I think Dexter was just replying to Ze rather than yourself Funda.
Meaning we don't obsolete libs in the spec file (as was true in mdv), so
removing old libs no longer used internally is still a manual
(rpmctl-type) task.

Col

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