On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 18:13:37 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > > No, but this time we announce them on the FC5Status page as officially > > orphaned, remove them from devel after FC-5 branch is available, and then > > move on. Remember, we've used those FCXStatus pages like that before. > > Sorry, seems I can't follow here. Wouldn't that also result in "that > would break post-install yum upgrades [in FC6]: libs upgraded, exe > upgrades not available => transaction check => *boom* "? At some point in time, yes. The difference is that we remove them at the beginning of a development stage, not at the end. There is no silver bullet. Every package, which is removed from the repository but is still installed on a user's machine, breaks a yum upgrade badly as soon as dependencies change in incompatible ways (e.g. soname changes). > I'd really like to get rid of the orphans sooner than later. The following are without maintainer for a longer time, i.e. in 2005 and before Dec 2005 (and tracked in the Wiki): arc camstream cksfv diag-ether doctorj freedroidrpg gnome-telnet gpa hping2 manedit mknbi netdiag nget parchive perl-Net-SCP perl-Net-SSH prozilla putty rpmproc tdl tetex-arabtex tetex-armtex tetex-font-tipa tetex-lgrind tla xmms-cdread xtide -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
