On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 09:20 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: > Can FESCo or the FPC perhaps come up with an official policy on retired > packages which have been published before for multiple releases of the > dist, but which are not obsoleted in any new package? > > E.g. python-libtorrent as requested for removal here: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/RepoRequests > Sorry about that one; The Deluge developers stopped maintaining their external python bindings and integrated the functionality into upstream releases (thereby precluding the need for the external library, and in fact dropping support/maintenance for that library entirely...) Unfortunately, I'm hesitant to make Deluge obsolete it through RPM's Obsoletes/Provides functionality because the next release of rb_libtorrent is supposed to be buildable with Python bindings, which my intent is to properly Provides/Obsoletes the one by the Deluge devs. (I'm talking to the upstream rb_libtorrent devs about this via IRC.) I was hoping to get this resolved a bit quicker, but "ces't la vie" as the saying goes... :| > A possible solution is a mandatory entry in the release notes, in a > section that explains how to remove orphans/leaf-packages manually. package-cleanup (part of the yum-utils package) is very useful for this. -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42) / FSF & EFF Member GnuPG Public Key ID: 0xFFC19479 / Fingerprint: DD68 A414 56BD 6368 D957 9666 4268 CB7A FFC1 9479 Blog: http://thecodergeek.com/blog/ About: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PeterGordon
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