[Mageia-dev] icewm-gnome: is it still supported?

Funda Wang fundawang at gmail.com
Tue Apr 10 05:54:27 CEST 2012


I guess you are talking about ditch specific package from user's
system. Check it here:
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packaging_guidelines#Obsoleting_a_package

2012/4/10 You-Cheng Hsieh <yochenhsieh at gmail.com>:
> 2012/4/5 Olav Vitters <olav at vitters.nl>:
>> On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 10:47:33AM +0800, You-Cheng Hsieh wrote:
>>> Is icewm-gnome still usable in cauldron? I have to install many gnome2
>>> libraries in order to build it, but I cannot get it working. On the
>>> other hand, gnome2 libraries are not maintained by upstream...
>>>
>>> Should we provide it for Mageia 2?
>>
>> Suggest drop it unless it is ported to not use those old libraries (lots
>> of functionality has been replaced by things in gtk+, etc). Don't forget
>> that if you import, you're the maintainer ;)
>>
> I've set %define with_gnome 0 in icewm.spec locally, icewm-gnome won't be built.
> Should I set Obsoletes: %{name}-gnome for icewm-light?
> Does icewm-gnome need to be removed during update/upgrade if we drop it?
>
> Thanks.


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