On Apr 6, 2011, at 7:19 AM, Max Horn wrote: > My view: I would prefer to follow the policy and rev up packages; if > a user still has them installed, this way they explicitly see that > they are about to update an obsolete package (something they may > have missed in the past due to a confusing description text). If > there are any truly big packages with an obsolete splitoff, we could > either make an exception for that, or just wait with releasing the > desc fix until there is a natural update coming anyway.
I like the general idea, FWIW. It's something that will help make it a little more obvious which package to install when searching the PDB. (Ideally, IMHO, it would be nice to have the PDB or even "fink list" be able to hide obsolete packages unless a flag is set, but that can be done down the road.) Along those lines, if it looks like a package needs to depend on fink- obsolete-packages, I'm putting my vote in for adding that dependency when you modify the description. (Although I see AKH just posted a good argument for not doing that if the obsolete package doesn't have its own info file.) I've been thinking about separating the splitoff for geda-* into its own bundle package (now that upstream has been distributing a single tarball for everything), and this is as good a time as any for me to do that (taking a few packages off of your list). If I don't get to it soon, though, feel free to handle that however you see fit. > > That's it. Considering that this is a pretty small and marginal > thing, compared to much more important things like a transition to > git for everything (which I still would love to see!) Yeah, I'm interested in the git conversion, too. A topic for another thread, I guess, but I'm curious as to what the logical next step is - short of badgering people on IRC :-) -- Charles Lepple clepple@gmail ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
