Le Lun 12 mars 2007 16:34, Jesse Keating a écrit : > On Sunday 11 March 2007 15:39:53 Callum Lerwick wrote: >> Ummm, how about we just do something like debian does. Say we have a >> package, "foo-1.0-1.fc6" that has been dropped. Release a new version of >> the package, "foo-1.0-2.fc6" that is a dummy package that contains >> nothing, and has a %description along the lines of "Package foo is >> obsolete. This is a dummy package that ensures its removal. This package >> can be removed safely." > > Why do we want to go out of our way to remove potentially still usable > software from people's machines? Just because Fedora doesn't maintain it > anymore doesn't mean it automatically becomes unusable software that we > should forcibly remove from people's machines. IMHO we should do this reality check every release. Finding out a package is dead because the update removed it is relatively painless. One just has to reinstall the previous version¹² Finding out a package is dead because bad things happen³ and investigation shows it was retired months/years before is another thing You don't do users any favour by silently leaving unsupported stuff on their systems. An early warning with short-term workarounds is better than full-blown failure when it's too late to do anything. ¹ this implies the retirement procedure allows it ² and hopefully investigate alternatives or adopt the package ³ including security problems -- Nicolas Mailhot -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
