[Mageia-dev] [changelog] cauldron core/release task-obsolete-3-56.mga3

Pascal Terjan pterjan at gmail.com
Mon Jan 28 13:26:54 CET 2013


On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Jose Jorge <lists.jjorge at free.fr> wrote:
> Le 28/01/2013 09:53, Guillaume Rousse a écrit :
>
>> No, that's false. You have to remove obsoletes package from mirrors,
>> there is no obligation to remove it from end user machines.
>>
>
> And isn't the purpose of task-obsoletes to remove from mirrors?

No, it is to remove from users machine when the packages will not
work/break other things/have security problems/... and there is no
replacement

> The same discussion happened here when proprietary java was removed from the
> distro, let's not start it again...


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