[Mageia-sysadm] Pkg removal request

[Pascal Terjan]

On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Jani Välimaa <jani.valimaa at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06.06.2012 18:11, nicolas vigier wrote:
>> On Wed, 30 May 2012, Jani Välimaa wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> as I get some negative feedback by dropping pkgs with task-obsolete
>>> previously, I decided to step back to old behaviour..
>>>
>>> Could someone please remove the following obsoleted pkgs from repos:
>>> mousepad
>>> xfprint
>>> lib{,64}xfprint-devel
>>> lib{,64}xfprint0
>>
>> What is the reason for removing them ?
>>
>> If it is software that we want to remove from the distribution, then it
>> should be obsoleted by task-obsolete.
>>
>> https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packaging_guidelines#Obsoleting_a_package
>>
>
> Both seems to be dead in upstream. Other distros are also removed or
> removing them from their repos.
>
> Well, I guess I'll add them then to task-obsolete and won't care if
> someone rants about obsoleting libs and/or preventing users installing
> pkgs from their own sources..

There is no reason to obsolete the lib or the -devel