[Mageia-dev] Task-obsolete and non-sense obsoletes

[Olivier Thauvin]

* Pascal Terjan (pterjan at gmail.com) wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Olivier Thauvin
> <nanardon at nanardon.zarb.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > But I am still in favor to remove it. In past, package we didn't want to
> > support anymore was just removed from mirrors, and this was enough to
> > show their status.
> 
> But people will not be notified of it.
> If a system is obsolete with the new distribution and known to break
> things/contain major security problems, I think having a place to put
> the obsoletes is good.
> But really I wouldn't expect more than 2 or 3 such packages in a release...

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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