On Saturday 8. December 2012 11.06, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > > Unless I misunderstand, adding it to «task-obsolete» does the same thing, > > with a 2 week delay on deleting. > > So the proper action would be to add it to «task-obsolete». > That's still not the proper action.
In other words, I did misunderstand. > Stop removing packages from end > user machines just to remove them from the mirrors as a side effect of > our package submission procedure. So what should we do? The current packaging guidelines[1] says that this is the correct action for obsolete packages, which a depcrecated package is. If this is not the desired solution, then the guidelines should change. Perhaps just clairfied as to what is an obsolete package, which belongs in task-obsolete, and what is Not an obsolete package even if it's deprecated. [1] https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packaging_guidelines#Obsoleting_a_package -- Johnny A. Solbu PGP key ID: 0xFA687324
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