[Mageia-dev] Un-cleaned drak packages

[Ahmad Samir]

On 27 May 2011 21:58, David W. Hodgins <davidwhodgins at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 27 May 2011 13:08:33 -0400, Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Right now there're 3 packages that were imported without cleaning:
>> drakstats
>> drakwizard
>> drakfax
>> They should be reviewed before release, and either get cleaned (if
>> needed) or removed from the repos until they're cleaned.
>
> Isn't it a bit late to be removing packages?
>
> How will this impact upgrading from 2010.2?
>
> Since those packages are no longer available, will the existing
> mandriva versions get removed, or will they be left to block upgrades,
> as they have mandriva dependencies?
>
> In my opinion, they should be left in, with an errata entry stating
> that they still need cleaning.
>
> Regards, Dave Hodgins
>

No can do; if they're not cleaned they can't be in the official repos
due to copyright/trademarks/legal-soup issues.

Anyway, status update:
o drakwizard: cleaned by Anne and is good to go
o drakfax: the code hasn't been touched in ~2years, so it's been
removed from the repos as it's not really supported
o drakstats: it needs server-side support, this isn't viable for
Mageia 1; so it's been removed for now, until such a time that support
is implemented in the Mageia servers.


After upgrading drakfax will be considered, by urpmi, as an orphan
package as it's not required/suggested by anything any more. As for
drakstats, nothing suggests/requires it already, users who have it,
will have to remove it manually, though maybe something should
obsolete for now... (I'll ask on IRC).

-- 
Ahmad Samir