'Twas brillig, and Funda Wang at 30/06/11 00:11 did gyre and gimble: > 2011/6/30 Dexter Morgan <[email protected]>: >> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Zé <[email protected]> wrote: >>> 2011/6/27 Funda Wang <[email protected]>: >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> How is the obsoleted binaries be removed currently in Mageia? Does the >>>> maintainer need to call for this? If yes, please remove >>>> lib{,64}devhelp-2_1 from cauldron. >>>> >>>> Thanks. >>>> >>> whats current problem? >>> >>> You can obsolete it through BS, add an entry in the spec about it. >>> >> >> our policy is to not obsolete libs. > Then the repository will contain a lot of orphan libs.
I think Dexter was just replying to Ze rather than yourself Funda. Meaning we don't obsolete libs in the spec file (as was true in mdv), so removing old libs no longer used internally is still a manual (rpmctl-type) task. Col -- Colin Guthrie mageia(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mageia Contributor [http://www.mageia.org/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]
