On 30 March 2012 16:00, nicolas vigier <[email protected]> wrote: >> Assuming we do not want to abandon them, what do we do? I'd suggest >> shipping a new empty package that replaces it with a README.urpmi >> telling them to go to Sun directly is the most responsible thing for us >> to do. If they do not have a JRE installed, and they have packages that >> require one, then they should be prompted to install e.g. openjdk to >> satisfy package deps. That should work OK right? > > I think an empty package is not a good idea, it would be better to > obsolete it in task-obsolete : > - it's more clear that the package is obsoleted and is not a regular > update. Users installing an empty package as update would only see that > it is removed but not updated when it's already removed. > - package is really removed and no longer listed as installed in rpm > database > - it's easy to add task-obsolete in urpmi skip.list for people who > don't want unmaintained packages to be automatically removed >
In that case, I don't think so. We can thus popup a README.urpmi explaining what happened. Also user can find out this when running rpm -ql java-sun-foobar
