[Mageia-dev] Package removal proposal

[Olivier Blin]

Guillaume Rousse <guillomovitch at gmail.com> writes:

> Le 24/08/2012 16:43, Colin Guthrie a écrit :
>> 'Twas brillig, and Guillaume Rousse at 23/08/12 20:01 did gyre and gimble:
>>> Le 20/08/2012 20:49, Guillaume Rousse a écrit :
>>>> Unless someone step it to fix pending issues, those packages should
>>>> better get dropped.
>>> I just removed madwifi-sources, apache-mod_python and apache-mod_ruby
>>> from the subversion repository. I need an admin to remove the
>>> corresponding packages (including the debug ones) from the distribution
>>> tree.
>>
>> By "removed" do you mean "svn mv'ed" to the obsolete folder?
> No, svn rm'ed.
>
>> I think that's generally better than removing (and we can potentially
>> use it to prevent people importing packages that are listed there should
>> they come in without knowing).
> Agreed. Hence the point of writing the procedure somewhere.

You mean like already done here? :)
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packaging_guidelines#Obsoleting_a_package

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Olivier Blin - blino