On 6/3/19 1:16 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 11:07 AM Adam Williamson
<adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Some people don't see any problem with this, personally it drives me
crazy and I wish it were policy that *every* retired package must be
obsoleted. But it isn't.
Not obsoleting retired packages is arguably inconsistent with the
Workstation PRD:
"Upgrading the system multiple times through the upgrade process
should give a result that is the same as an original install of Fedora
Workstation."
I understand that is a goal, not a policy or release criterion.
It leads to situations like
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1490074 where the package
doesn't work, and there's not even any possibility for fixing it (the
package was abandoned and it's successor was abandoned as well).
Situations like these just embarrass Fedora, so I agree with Adam that
something should be done, but as the comments in #1490074 show, people
aren't sure what exactly should happen.
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