Re: Heads-up: Obsolete but still included packages

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On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 21:34:52 +0200, Till Maas wrote:

> > > > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/latexdiff
> > > 
> > > Let me rephrase: It is not orphaned/retired/deprecated in pkgdb and
> > > there is no dead.package in GIT and it is not blocked in koji.
> > 
> > Right, and yet it's obsoleted by texlive-latexdiff, so no one could
> > ever install it or use it. 
> > 
> > So, all the above steps should be done on it, or if there's some actual
> > reason it's useful, texlive-latexdiff would have to be modified to not
> > obsolete it so anyone could actually install or use it. 
> 
> Yes, I agree. But it is hard do deduct this from the original mail. :-)

Sorry, if we use completely different terminology. :-(

With "obsolete" I mean there's an RPM "Obsoletes" tag somewhere for the
package. With "retiring" I refer to the package EOL process (e.g. the fedpkg
command is "retire". My message also refers to that.
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