[Mageia-dev] draksnapshot, possible fix for a 30 duplicates bug

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Samuel Verschelde at 02/07/12 08:38 did gyre and gimble:
> Le dimanche 1 juillet 2012 23:08:55 Thomas Backlund a écrit :
>> 01.07.2012 23:05, Jani Välimaa skrev:
>>> On 01.07.2012 23:03, Manuel Hiebel wrote:
>>>> Hello can somebody please make an update to fix draksnapshot easily ?
>>>> The idea is to add a require/suggest to hal as asking in the bug.
>>>>
>>>> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3032
>>>>
>>>> So someone for do that ? thanks.
>>>
>>> How about dropping the whole draksnapshot (starting from mga3)?
>>
>> That was the intention for mga2 too, and removed it from the mirrors,
>> but during rc/final testing we realized some of the drakx tools expected
>> the code to be there in order to be rebuilt, so we had to
>> reintroduce the rpms to get mga2 out.
>>
>> so we need to fix that dep first.
> 
> So we could add the suggests for mga2 and plan removal for mga3? (although if 
> people report bugs against it, it means they use it... So maybe we should not 
> remove it after all?)

Well people using it is half the puzzle... people willing to maintain it
is the other half! If someone steps up to maintain it, I'm sure we'd
happily still include it!

Col


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